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...just because of Tiger infighting. The government is also in disarray following elections last week in which President Chandrika Kumaratunga's party failed to win a parliamentary majority. Without it, Kumaratunga "cannot do everything stated in her manifesto," says Jeremy Clarke, who heads the International Monetary Fund's Sri Lankan operations. Last week, she found she had insufficient authority to install her choice for Prime Minister, former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, and was forced to accept his rival Mahinda Rajapakse. As for resuming peace negotiations with the Tigers, Jehan Perera of the National Peace Council says the most the President...
Fifteen seconds." the 17-year-old sprinter laughs self-mockingly as she reveals her time for the 100 m at last week's South Asian Federation Games in Islamabad. She has reason to be embarrassed: her time was more than three seconds slower than the winning Sri Lankan's 11.81. "I don't think that's so good for the Olympics, is it?" She giggles some more, and her head scarf slips down, exposing thick auburn waves. Despite the fact that she is in a restaurant full of men, she leaves it there, too caught up in her own joke...
...might have been the increasingly loud imprecations I was directing at my driver. Whatever the cause, we had suddenly become the focus of several hundred wild elephants. Those nearest began to stomp toward us, thumping their trunks on the ground. It was our third encounter with Sri Lankan pachyderms in less than a week, and though we escaped by crazily zigzagging in reverse, this one was rather close for comfort. "You're very fortunate," said Premaratna, our septuagenarian guide. "I've never seen so many herds assembled at one time." He estimated that there were about 1,000 elephants graying...
...More intriguing are questions surrounding the role of a Sri Lankan named B.S.A. Tahir, who was named by Bush last week as Khan's deputy and chief financial officer. Tahir, who declined comment when contacted by TIME, reportedly acted as the middleman in the centrifuge deal, negotiating the $3.5 million manufacturing contract for the controversial parts with Scomi, which is controlled through a holding company by Prime Minister Abdullah's only son, Kamaluddin Abdullah. But Tahir, currently in Malaysia, appears to be more than a middleman. TIME has learned that Tahir's wife, Malaysian national Nazimah binte Syed Majid...
...kerb, bearing trays of steaming, spicy curries and serving customers through their open car windows as in a '50s American drive-in burger joint. But that's the only Westernized touch at Hotel de Pilawoos?the food, happily, makes no such concessions. The house specialty is that sublime Sri Lankan staple, the hopper?a wafer-thin, bowl-shaped pancake with a crisp surround and soft spongy center. Made out of rice flour, yeast and coconut milk, hoppers are usually eaten with spicy sambol sauces or just a fried egg plopped in the center. They're quite light...