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...Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.), as the rebels call themselves, signed a cease-fire designed to lead to a political agreement. While the rebels want a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka's north and east, the government wants to keep the island whole. A federation seemed a possible compromise. But peace talks sputtered and then collapsed (both sides accused the other of being insincere), and since December 2005, Sri Lanka has again been at undeclared war with itself. The latest round of bloodletting is much like previous ones-bombings (including a Tuesday blast that...
...assured them was safe, when they came under rebel mortar fire. (Both ambassadors were slightly hurt.) Two weeks ago, in one of its most audacious attacks so far, the Tigers used two small planes (the government says it was just one), which the group had smuggled onto the island piece by piece over the past few years, to bomb an airfield adjacent to the country's international airport outside Colombo. The attack killed three and wounded 16, but officials say government planes weren't damaged. The air attack was so unexpected that the improvised bombers were able to make...
...little digging reveals that the construction actually consists of two projects: a pedestrian island being built by the Cambridge Department of Public Works, and a Lampoon-contracted renovation, according to the Cambridge Department of Public Works...
...It’s a little dangerous,” said resident tutor Uchechukwugaeme O. Nwamara. “The cars are notoriously fast on that road. It’s also unwieldy, since the island hasn’t been built...
...spin in his grave every time the G.O.P. refers to itself as the party of Lincoln. Huckabee, unfortunately, has little chance of getting the nomination with his do-unto-others mentality. That kind of thinking just doesn't pass muster in today's Republican Party. Mark McKay, PASCOAG, RHODE ISLAND...