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...sure, Sri Lanka has had it worse. At the height of the conflict, which has claimed some 65,000 lives, up to 1,000 people occasionally perished in a single day. Jehan Perera, director of the National Peace Council, an independent Colombo think tank, reckons that, in Sri Lankan terms, both sides are showing restraint-neither has launched all-out assaults. "The government knows the only way to stop the L.T.T.E. from killing more soldiers is to meet them at the negotiating table," says Perera. The Tigers, he adds, are keen to shore up their battered reputation with the international...
...been critical of the President, and liberal groups began gleefully circulating nettlesome quotes to reporters on Tuesday. Media Matters for America put together a cheeky "Suggested questions for the White House press corps to ask on Tony Snow's first day." A column by Snow last September, at the height of the Hurricane Katrina fallout, said: "Begin with the wimp factor. No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.... His presidential report card already shows an ?A' on foreign policy, but with the exceptions of tax policy and judicial selections...
...another curious declaration, since we hadn’t descended on Cambridge yet—and “Holy Shit, How did I get into the Harvard C/O 2009?” Even now in April, my current Facebook friend list is shorter than it was at its height last summer. But arriving in Cambridge, expectations loomed that various friendships and relationships would take shape. For the most part, they didn’t. Save a few online friends with whom I clicked, most of my online friendships fizzled out (and I realized that enduring bonds cannot begin...
...audiences everywhere—that there’s still plenty to come. The festivities continue with the Harvard University Choir’s performance of Mozart’s “Requiem,” his final and unfinished work. The piece captures the composer at the height of his creative trajectory, and encompasses desperate, fiery emotions not evident in many of his other compositions. Even before the 1984 release of the blockbuster film “Amadeus,” for which the “Requiem” serves as a musical centerpiece, the unfamiliar stylistic...
...blame for the rough seas of the second term. McClellan kept his cherubic grin and low-key sense of Southern humor even when he was being rhetorically pummeled by testosterone-fueled correspondents. When McClellan?s Texas Longhorns were appearing with Bush to celebrate their Rose Bowl win at the height of the imbroglio over Vice President Cheney?s marksmanship, McClellan joked, "The orange that they're wearing is not because they're concerned that the Vice President may be there. Although that's why I'm wearing...