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...under the threat of war unravels. Several hundred thousand civilians have been displaced by the conflict; Sri Lanka has high rates of domestic violence and alcoholism, and the suicide rate is among the worst in Asia. Reacting to the end of the cease-fire, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon urged Sri Lankans to find an end to the conflict "through a political solution." Alas, in a society where politics turns on religion and identity, such a solution has proved impossible - as two and a half decades of broken plans attest...
...event itself, however, will have plenty of precedent. The craters that pock the surface of Mars, the Moon, Mercury and other Solar System bodies come from about four billion years' worth of this sort of thing. Earth has had plenty of collisions too; it's just that erosion, continental drift and vegetation have erased or hidden most of them. Not all, though: Meteor Crater, in Arizona, was blasted out some 50,000 years ago by an asteroid about the same size as 2007 WD5. A much bigger object, a few miles across, is thought by many scientists...
...only with the help of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, who made an emergency stop in Bali, that negotiations got kick started. The South Korean, in office for less than a year, is known as diplomatic even by UN standards, but he arrived without mincing words. "Frankly, I am disappointed at the lack of progress," said Ban to a packed audience. "Seize the moment, this moment, for the good of all humanity...
...students. Chen Jianjun, who arrived in the Japanese city of Kobe on a Chinese government scholarship in 1982, recalls how alien Japan's orderly society felt to a boy whose formative years were shaped by the anarchy of the Cultural Revolution. "Coming to Japan was like going to the moon," he says. "At Kobe University, the professors asked my opinions about Marx and Lenin. I had no idea that I was allowed to have an opinion on them...
...Page.” The show, which took place Friday in the Adams House Pool Theatre, featured 11 short but intense pieces of contemporary dance. Works of literature, ranging from “One Hundred Years of Solitude” to “Goodnight Moon,” inspired each dance. Elizabeth A. Miller ’09 and Julia K. Lindpaintner ’09 served as both directors and producers of “Off the Page.”The Adams House Pool Theatre served as an intimate atmosphere for the show, with enough breathing room...