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...barrel-chested rugby fan, Rajapaksa, 63, will need that common touch to bring Sri Lanka to a true and lasting peace between the island nation's Sinhalese majority (which is mostly Buddhist) and Tamil minority (mostly Hindu). The civil war began in earnest in July 1983, after nearly 3,000 Tamils were killed in several days of systematic anti-Tamil violence. It was the low point of what Sri Lanka's Tamils felt had been decades of official discrimination and military repression in Tamil-majority areas in the north and east. The LTTE took up arms in the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mahinda Rajapaksa: The Hard-Liner | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...give this to you,” Austin said to me. “But you have to be an Angels fan...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips | Title: A FAN FOR SALE PART 2: Angels Aren't Just in the Outfield | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

ANAHEIM, Calif.—So I realized in my last entry on the Padres, I left off the score. The Padres ended up losing that game, 6-1. For this installment of A Fan for Sale, I traveled a little way down the 5 to Angel Stadium for the Twins-Angels game. En route, I could see the Tower of Terror, Space Mountain, and the Matterhorn from Disneyland. A huge plus! Anyway, here’s what I found in Anaheim...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips | Title: A FAN FOR SALE PART 2: Angels Aren't Just in the Outfield | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

Alan Autry, along with his son, Austin, was a consummate Angels fan. From talking with him, it sounded like Angels fans are laid back without being too laid back. The beef I had with PETCO was that the fans didn’t really seem all that into the game. Angel fans knew what was going...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips | Title: A FAN FOR SALE PART 2: Angels Aren't Just in the Outfield | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...incredibly cheap. Statistically, only two expensive things happen to people under 30: one is a malignancy and the other is an accident. Everything else is mostly preventive maintenance and it's very inexpensive. But this is not what's going to be passed. I'm a very big fan of Obama's bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Howard Dean on the Politics of Health-Care Reform | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

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