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...leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who was declared killed by the Sri Lankan government on May 18, had decades to think about how his end would come. It could have come from the cyanide capsule that he - like many Tiger fighters - wore around his neck, a pledge to commit suicide in case of capture by the Sri Lankan army. He had been fighting a war for an independent homeland, or eelam, for the island's Tamil minority since 1983, and the army had pursued him throughout the jungles of the north and east for decades...
This is not the stuff of recession-era tragedy. Christopher once came home to find his mother in a neck brace: she had curtsied too low to a duchess and caught a heel in her pearls. The Buckleys weren't plutocrats, but William's prodigious output--he could bash out a 700-word column in five minutes flat--and Patricia's inheritance made them more than well off, and the action leaps nimbly from the family's teak-and-mahogany yacht to its 10th century Swiss château to Patricia's memorial service at the Metropolitan Museum's Temple...
...Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1142. Sex and the Bible — Oh baby, your neck is like the tower of David and your teeth like a flock of sheep just shorn. Wanna lie together...
...wanted to go out there and come in above our seeding,†varsity coxswain Jill Carlson said. “We wanted to medal. We wanted to be better than fourth place.â€The varsity eight event started with Dartmouth, Princeton and Radcliffe neck and neck as Yale took an early lead off of the start. While the Bulldogs continued to gain an edge on the field, Radcliffe took a move at the 750-meter mark, surprising a Big Green crew that began to fall back. The rest of the race was a battle for second...
...collapse. The hostess, Rifat Haye, 54, is one of two female pilots with the national airline and is celebrating her promotion to captain. She wears jeans. Her hair is streaked with blond, and a diamond nose stud glints in the sun, as does the jeweled Allah pendant around her neck. She is frustrated with the image the world has of Pakistan, that of a failing state overrun by Muslim fanatics. Pointing first to herself, then at her guests, she says, "This is Pakistan." Then she waves her hand over the valley beyond the deck of her summer cabin. "But that...