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COLOMBO, SRI LANKA: A truck packed with explosives drove into Sri Lanka's central bank today, killing at least 53 people and wounding 1,400. Sri Lankan authorities are blaming Tamil Tiger rebels for the explosion, which caused the bank and several other buildings to burst into flames. The fires blazed for most of the day, making rescue attempts difficult. If it was a rebel attack, it was one of the worst in their 12-year campaign for an independent homeland. Nearly 40,000 people have been killed in the fighting. The worst attack occurred in October 1994, when...
...world. With external enemies removed, with hybrid states no longer held together by hegemonic superpowers, the petty annoyances and existential difficulties of living in mixed-ethnic marriages within nation-states has become increasingly intolerable. From the former Yugoslavia to the former Czechoslovakia to the former Soviet Union, from Sri Lanka to Quebec, the tendency to separation is inexorable...
Hillary Rodham Clinton and daughter Chelsea embarked on a 12-day official goodwill tour of Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The emphasis: promoting the welfare of women and children. Clinton mere et fille toured orphanages, schools and a women's cooperative, as well as the fabled Taj Mahal, which Mrs. Clinton termed "just haunting...
Ghungroo--the name of the bells South Asian dancers wear on their ankles--featured music, dance and poetry from a variety of regions of India and Sri Lanka...
...slightly stooped, in fact, but strong enough to give 30 talks during a 33,000-km tour that touched the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Australia and Sri Lanka. The Pontiff has still not fully recovered from last April's surgery for a broken leg: he walks with a cane and his left arm shakes almost constantly. But his actor's sense of timing and improvisation remain intact, and on several occasions he spoke without notes--a sign he was in good spirits. At one point in Manila, after a lengthy departure from his prepared speech, the Pope announced slowly, with...