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...international community pays particular attention to Sri Lanka, beyond a simple desire for peace, is the Tigers' world reach. To fund their war in the dirt-poor salt marshes of northern Sri Lanka, the Tigers built a multimillion-dollar fund-raising arm, cajoling and strong-arming the expatriate ethnic Tamil community which settled abroad, particularly in Britain, Australia and Canada. They assembled a fleet of boats, which Sri Lankan intelligence estimates at 22 ships, to smuggle weapons across the Indian Ocean and beyond. And they exported their know-how to the world...
...following recipes are courtesy of Pilar Cabrera at Casa de los Sabores B&B in Oaxaca, Mexico. Ingredients such as dried chilis and Mexican chocolate can usually be found in the international food aisles of your local supermarket or through specialty websites such as Ethnic Grocer or MexGrocer.com. These recipes serve six people...
...know their way around a statistical time series like he does; no one can match his ingenuity in figuring out what to do with it. When Megalogenis describes the rise of the McMansion, for instance, you get acute social observation, street-cred cultural criticism, political nous, personal anecdote, ethnic punditry and a savvy dissection of changes in capital gains tax. There's a sense that Megalogenis-a former Canberra Press Gallery fixture who's never lost touch with the pulse of life in the suburbs-remembers everything and wastes nothing. It shows in his revealing interrogations...
...Urdu, profanity, gangsta rap and mobile-phone texting. (As in, "Shudn't b callin us Pakis, innit, u dirrty gora.") Its multiculti flavor has led to Malkani being hailed in the celebrity-hungry British press as the next Monica Ali or Zadie Smith in a line of hot young "ethnic" writers. Could any first-time novelist live up to those expectations? Well, the more serious gora (white) critics won't b callin im gr8, but Malkani does tell a lively tale. He also captures the soul of a subculture that has spread far beyond his hometown, a movement that...
...meant to look like a butterfly. “I’m going to dance for Duane, and for our community, and for our pain and grievance, and for his memory.” Meat would help his friends with tasks ranging from proofreading theses to preparing ethnic foods. One day this semester, Scott was making a type of Native American fried dough called “frybread” for the Black Arts Festival, and desperately needed more hands. “Duane just literally rolled up his sleeves and was like...