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...Tamil-majority areas? No, but it's happening in Colombo. The eastern-province Muslims have come here. The Tamils have come here. You ask them, Why are you coming here? Can I stop them? No. If anybody wants to come and live in any part of this island, it is the right...
...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...
...Shih is hardly the only Taiwan businessman aspiring to make his company a household name. Capitalizing on technological shifts in mobile computing and consumer attitudes, several of the island's electronics manufacturers are beginning to steal some of the thunder of their better-known Japanese, South Korean and American rivals. Chief among them are Asustek Computer, which practically invented a category of small, inexpensive notebook computers called netbooks, and HTC, which is making a surprisingly strong showing in smart phones, a fast-growing market currently led by the Apple iPhone. (See the best inventions...
...Qaeda, he should be arrested. He's a terrorist." - Abdul Razzak Aziz of the Islamic Association of Long Island (Newsday, July...
...They warn that family gatherings, leisure activities and even church attendance will suffer greatly as people are forced to don the dominical yoke of labor. Where will the next Renoir get his inspiration for another Bal du Moulin de la Galette? What would Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte be without the Sunday bit? And how to defend the colors against the neighborhood rival if your goalkeeper and best center forward are down at the mall selling garden furniture...