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...escape the fighting. Once the last remaining Tiger units had also moved into the zone, the government accused the Tigers of firing at troops from within the safe zone. Aid agencies have reported fighting within the zone in recent weeks. "No one is safe inside the safe zone,"says Neil Buhne, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Sri Lanka. "The Tigers are conscripting to fill depleted cadre levels, the military is advancing and civilians in close proximity face extreme danger...
...Washington Haste Makes Waste In an April 21 report to Congress, the special inspector general overseeing the government's $700 billion financial bailout offered some grim news and a stern warning. Neil Barofsky said he had begun "almost 20 preliminary and full criminal investigations" into allegations of fraudulent use of bailout funds. He urged the government to revamp the bailout rules so it can better track spending. According to Barofsky, the bailout's Public-Private Investment Partnership program, in particular, is "inherently vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse...
...Glenn Beck fan and believe that our nation is on the road to destruction and that the President and his staff are responsible [April 20]. Beck does a great job of reporting the real truth of the news. Neil Lochhead, GROVER BEACH, CALIF...
...theater artist has been sabotaged by praise more cruelly than Alan Ayckbourn. The British playwright was hailed in the 1970s for a string of comedies that, thanks to their abundant laughs and popularity in London's West End, got him dubbed the "British Neil Simon." That wildly inaccurate moniker stuck, even as Ayckbourn's early comedies, like Absurd Person Singular, gave way to increasingly dark and adventurous work - plays that were no longer surefire hits in London and in most cases never even got produced...
...only because those substances are banned in polo-playing countries like Britain, but because "we live with them. If there's anyone who never wants to see their horses killed, it's us." Meanwhile, whether or not the horses died from being injected with anything illicit, polo figures like Neil Hirsch, owner of Black Watch, one of the U.S.'s best teams, are calling now for the U.S to get more serious about anti-doping rules in equestrian sports...