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...Years before the world heard of Osama bin Laden or al-Qaeda, the Tigers were pioneering a new method of guerrilla warfare in their fight against Sri Lanka's majority Sinhalese for a tiny separate state in the north of the small Indian Ocean island. The first Tiger killed himself attacking the Sri Lankan army in 1987. Hundreds followed, and when they signed a cease-fire with the Sri Lankan government in February 2002, the Tigers accounted for around a third of all suicide attacks in the world. A Western diplomat based in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo describes...
...international community has tried for years to persuade the two sides of Sri Lanka's conflict, which has taken close to 65,000 lives, to talk peace. Those efforts have largely failed, and despite the 2002 cease-fire, this year the island has appeared poised to return to war as a new wave of violence has swept over it. Around 200 people have been killed in the last month alone. After the latest attack, the Sri Lankan government launched air strikes on Tiger territory for the second time this year...
...operates in the Mississippi Delta. The CEO of EnerVest, a Houston energy-asset-management firm, was luckier than most. Katrina spared four of his fields, though the damage to a fifth was ugly. The storm blew a barge five miles down the bayou from its moorings in marshy Garden Island Bay. Nearly every piece of oil equipment was destroyed, and Walker estimates it will take several months to get that field running at full capacity. "When there's this much damage, there are only so many spare barges, compressors and generators out there," he says. "We're losing...
...hurricane. Bananas destined for Gulfport, Miss., are being diverted to other ports, with Chiquita sending boats to Freeport, Texas, and Port Everglades, Fla. "If volume is affected, our customers will have to raise prices," says Chiquita spokesman Michael Mitchell. At least hot-sauce fans can rest assured: Avery Island, La.--based McIlhenny, maker of Tabasco sauce, claims production is running smoothly and all its employees are safe...
...television show “Family Guy,” will be the Class Day speaker this June, according to a senior close to the committee. The Class Committee returns a comedian to the podium for the fifth time in seven years. MacFarlane is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, which is also the setting of his cartoon show. The FOX network cancelled “Family Guy” in 2002, saying that the show had failed to garner consistently high ratings. But after the show surged in popularity on the Cartoon Network...