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...Lankans seem to have quickly forgotten the spirit of cooperation that flickered briefly after the tsunami. Across the Indian Ocean in Aceh, the disaster persuaded guerrillas and the Indonesian government to declare a truce and work together. Sri Lanka had a similar opportunity. International donors pledged more than $7.5 billion in development and tsunami aid?that's $375 for every person on the island. But bitter squabbles over how to share the cash?last summer, nationalist Sinhalese and Buddhist monks claimed giving aid to the Tigers legitimized terrorism?only aggravated divisions. Hagrup Haukland, Norwegian chief of the Sri Lanka Monitoring...
...year-old Boston MC is so dedicated to his on-stage persona that he doesn’t give out his real name to reporters. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, he toured under another moniker—A-Train—with now-all-but-forgotten Boston greats like Edo G and The Almighty RSO. Today, he runs a website for local hip-hop artists, and acts as a historian and elder statesman for Boston...
...part, Jimmy Carter seemed to take a couple of jabs at Bush, noting the "forgotten" of Hurricane Katrina and denounced the "secret government wiretapping" that Martin Luther King endured in what seemed to be a thinly veiled reference to President Bush's controversial authorization of National Security Agency listening to domestic calls...
...unlikely that the authors wanted to upset anyone. Murray, a clinical psychologist, is jovial and courteous in a professorial way; Fortinberry, a therapist, exudes warmth but also a fragility that betrays her long struggle with depression, won but not forgotten. Though they're blunt about the consequences of poor parenting, they don't criticize parents. "We live in a society in which damage is rampant," says Fortinberry, "in which it's impossible to bring up kids the way we're meant to bring up kids...
...mysterious epidemic. Director of Harvard University Health Services David Rosenthal ’59 calmed the masses by insisting that the outbreak was unrelated to dining hall food, the Crimson ran a “gee-that’s-odd” article, and the incident was ultimately forgotten. Such are the limitations of belonging to a transitory four-year academic institution. Identical incidents that happen five years apart may as well take place at separate universities, so poor is our institutional memory about student life. So to the residents of Cabot House, I say: fear...