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...assault came just 2 1/2 months after India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lanka's President Junius R. Jayewardene signed a peace pact aimed at ending the civil strife. According to that agreement, a peacekeeping force from India, Sri Lanka's closest neighbor, was responsible for disarming the rebels. An "interim council" was to be formed in the Tamil-dominated northern and eastern provinces, which would be merged and granted a substantial degree of local rule after elections, scheduled to be held before the end of this year...
...have to contend with jostling lunch crowds or bumper-to-bumper commutes. Instead, the married couple can take quiet strolls through 25 acres of birch and spruce forest. Reason: their office is in their three-bedroom, 3,500-sq.- ft. home on Alaska's remote Kenai peninsula. The nearest neighbor lives half a mile away, and now and then a moose wanders into the yard. "There are days when I wish I had someone to talk to," says Robin, who along with Tom spent eight years working in California's bustling Silicon Valley after they graduated from Stanford University...
...many of the Buckners' friends the explanation just didn't ring true. They knew Kirk as a good-natured teen, devoted to his family, who seemed incapable of such cold-blooded violence. "I'd seen him with his brothers and how he loved his mother," says Neighbor Mary Shoemaker. Her son Billy, 15, was a close friend of Kirk's and once saved him from drowning. "I never thought Kirk did it," he says...
...handle made out of a part from a lawn mower, the recesses in the stone walls for candles, the richly ornate wood carvings throughout. Although the Oests don't have plumbing, a telephone or a well, they do have electricity and a refrigerator they bought for $10 from a neighbor who later shot himself because his condominiums failed...
Carr's piece, entitled "S. End landmark and an unwanted future neighbor," was about a gay bar that is trying to move across the street from Foley's--apparently one of Carr's favorite "blue-collar" drinking spots. He begins his gay-bashing by noting that Chaps--the name of the proposed bar--may hold 1200 people while Foley's can hold only 100. "If this goes through," he writes, "they are going to have us outnumbered, in our own neighborhood, by at least a 10-1 margin." (Emphasis Carr...