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...L.T.T.E.'s influence. There is no doubt Prabhakaran is a prophetlike figure for many Tamils, but his power stems as much from his cold-blooded elimination of political rivals and moderate Tamil leaders as from genuine devotion. "Each individual person knows that if his name gets on a list of those who want change [from Tiger domination], they better be very careful," says Father Benjamin Henry "Harry" Miller, 81, a Catholic priest who arrived in Sri Lanka in 1948 and works at a Jesuit school in Batticaloa. Proud and inflexible, Prabhakaran needs the violence-or he risks irrelevancy. "You will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endless War | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

SHAUNTAY L. HENDERSON, the FBI's most-wanted woman, reportedly talking to officials before she was captured in Kansas City, Mo., on March 31; she is suspected in up to 50 shootings and was just the eighth woman ever on the FBI's most-wanted list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Apr. 16, 2007 | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...refused to comply with this clear statutory command. Instead, it has offered a laundry list of reasons not to regulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Apr. 16, 2007 | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...post went on, in chain letter form, to instruct its recipient to “hit 15 pretty girls on your friends list and let them know they are pretty.” After recovering from the initial disappointment that I had not received this post—apparently, my friends don’t think I’m very attractive—I was left puzzled. Though I knew that post was mostly just a harmless saying thought up by some frivolous girl somewhere out in cyberspace, I couldn’t shake the feeling that such...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Payback’s a Bitch | 4/4/2007 | See Source »

...City officials quickly trotted out a list of anti-crime measures such as late-night traffic checkpoints and crime cameras in hot spots. But a skeptical public is increasingly looking at ways to protect themselves. The topic comes up often in casual party chat and on Internet forums; a typical post on nola.com, the New Orleans Times- Picayune Web site, bears the heading "Armed Citizens Rule!" and reads, "would-be predators flee when a legally carried gun is presented instead of a wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Citizens' Army in New Orleans | 4/4/2007 | See Source »

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