Word: sri
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...world. With external enemies removed, with hybrid states no longer held together by hegemonic superpowers, the petty annoyances and existential difficulties of living in mixed-ethnic marriages within nation-states has become increasingly intolerable. From the former Yugoslavia to the former Czechoslovakia to the former Soviet Union, from Sri Lanka to Quebec, the tendency to separation is inexorable...
...SRI LANKAN BOMBING KILLS...
...suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a government building in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, killing 22 people and wounding 50 others. The police said the blast was set off by a Tamil separatist fighting for a homeland in the northeast of the country...
...remarkable man. An ex-U.S. Marine. A Vietnam veteran. A Jesuit-trained polemicist with what he proudly claimed was the first college degree in futurism. In his workaday job, he was paid by SRI International to peer into the future and tell corporate clients how to prepare for the 21st century...
Hillary Rodham Clinton and daughter Chelsea embarked on a 12-day official goodwill tour of Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The emphasis: promoting the welfare of women and children. Clinton mere et fille toured orphanages, schools and a women's cooperative, as well as the fabled Taj Mahal, which Mrs. Clinton termed "just haunting...