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...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 not change his mind," says Miller. "You can only stop his mind...
...more than matza could support. “We almost collapsed,” said Denenberg. Perhaps the burden of remembering the past was too heavy. Given matza’s tendency to fiercely resist being sufficiently eaten, those who live the unleavened life (not quite the Miller High Life) have to find ways to part the sea of blandness to arrive at the promised land of taste. “You can only eat so much matza because it begins to taste like cardboard,” Denenberg notes. That’s why he creates a HUDS matza...
...Environmentalists may not stop there. Says the Center's Jeff Miller, who notes that bald and golden eagles are also being poisoned: "The last major existence of lead in our environment is hunting and shooting.... After securing the protection of condors in California, we're definitely going to be looking at regulation nationwide...
...just endangered species that Andreano and Miller claim to be worried about. They are seeking a national ban on lead ammo because they believe - and some scientific studies suggest as well - that it also may be poisoning people, especially children, who eat hunted meats. Says Andreano, "There is such a problem with minute fragments of lead making their way onto the hunters' dinner table that we feel, ultimately, this is a human health and safety issue...
Previous recipients of the award include author Toni Morrison, playwright Arthur Miller, and most recently, author Tom Wolfe...