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...places like Darfur, the renewal of hostilities in Sri Lanka offers some lessons as to why civil wars are so hard to end. Part of the problem is that fratricidal disputes are often personal and heartfelt. "Both sides see themselves as being locked in a fight against evil," Jehan Perera, executive director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, wrote in a recent appraisal of his country's war. This fight is part ethnic, part religious and wholly vicious. "It is the belief in the unchanging nature of the other that often leads to violence. Both think the other...
...nation, there have been few credible attempts to help the lowest earners find housing. One problem is weak government oversight of development--a sign, some complain, that Miami's sun-soaked complacency has addled its political leaders as well. "Planning is disdained as the enemy here," says Gihan Perera, director of the Miami Workers Center. Local anger boiled over recently at a housing scandal that Perera's group helped the Miami Herald expose: Miami-Dade's government housing agency paid millions of dollars to politically connected developers for low-income projects that were never built or were used to construct...
...sure, Sri Lanka has had it worse. At the height of the conflict, which has claimed some 65,000 lives, up to 1,000 people occasionally perished in a single day. Jehan Perera, director of the National Peace Council, an independent Colombo think tank, reckons that, in Sri Lankan terms, both sides are showing restraint-neither has launched all-out assaults. "The government knows the only way to stop the L.T.T.E. from killing more soldiers is to meet them at the negotiating table," says Perera. The Tigers, he adds, are keen to shore up their battered reputation with the international...
...Deak, then executive vice president of the firm and the founder's son, blamed the commission report for some of the company's financial problems. In December 1984, Deak & Co. and two of its offshoots filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Two other subsidiaries, Deak-Perera U.S. and a foreign commerce bank, Deak National Bank, were not included in the filings. Said the younger Deak: "The damage we have suffered from maliciousness in that report to a very great extent caused the downfall of a very fine firm and the damage to a very fine...
...that Lang was a homeless drifter with a history of psychiatric problems. She had previously lived in the state of Washington, where she was awarded a bachelor's degree in physical education from Washington State University in 1963 and later taught fencing and tennis. Lang had visited Deak-Perera offices before, claiming that she was an owner of the company and that Deak owed her money. The firm denies that either statement is true. The woman had apparently exhibited bizarre behavior previously. Gretchen Collins, former food-service manager at the student union of the University of Washington in Seattle, said...