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...above all, Tiger leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran's real genius was to build a culture of sacrifice and martyrdom around his guerrilla force, with himself as demi-god leader - an almost exact forerunner of jihadi terrorism. In July 2002 TIME spent a few days with a female Tamil Tiger suicide squad at their base in northern Sri Lanka, and got a firsthand understanding of how he has been so successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Sri Lanka's Rebels Build a Suicide Bomber | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

...gave a town-hall-style presentation to a group of representatives from different groups involved in women’s issues. The ultimate choice of Marine, who has been at Harvard for over three years, comes in time for her to greet the Class of 2010 this September. The exact ways in which the Women’s Center will operate are less clear, although Kidd says she hopes that students will be instrumental in shaping the center. “What I’ve said all the way through the process is that it’s going...

Author: By Liz C. Goodwin and Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Marine to Direct Women's Center | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

...DeWolfe] dorm for the possible detection of marijuana or visible signs of distribution," according to police documents. Police began monitoring the room three weeks before the students were charged. Spellman wrote in a police report, "I familiarized myself with the layout of the 10 DeWolfe building and the exact location of [the] room." He wrote that on Jan. 6, he detected the scent of marijuana emanating from the students' second-floor window...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero | Title: Judge Moves To Dismiss DeWolfe Drug Case | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

...friendships, nature, certainty of beliefs—but breaks our heart as it takes every one of those comforts away. Tragically, it is when all of these necessary securities disappear, and the mountains fall silent, that Lu’s film has most to say about the price men exact upon nature and each other. Bottom Line: “Mountain Patrol: Kekexili” is one of the most affecting and forceful films of the last decade that a U.S. audience has had the privilege to experience...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mountain Patrol: Kekexili | 5/4/2006 | See Source »

...major wire services) but to argue that the relatively lackluster response Colbert received from his live audience was somehow empirically incorrect: He was funny, dammit, and if you didn't laugh, the only possible explanation is that you are an Administration lackey transcribing Scott McClellan's exact words with one hand and stabbing Joe Wilson's wife in the back with the other. At the media criticism forum on the Poynter Institute site, one correspondent channeled the audience?s reaction through what appeared to be the voice of the Fonz: "Stevie is a bad boy. He's not cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Stephen Colbert Funny? | 5/4/2006 | See Source »

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