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...northern Iraq were just another bunch of bickering agitators until the U.S. needed them to challenge Saddam Hussein. No one cared a whit for the Kosovars until Slobodan Milosevic ground them into the dirt. (It obviously helps to be the victim of a reviled dictator.) But Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka: Your moment has yet to arrive...
...sour grapes. If Gates has wealth that he earned by hard work, let him enjoy it and spend it how he chooses. Don't resent it when people have amassed a lot of money through their labors. They deserve to live any way they want. JAYANTHI DE ALWIS Colombo, Sri Lanka...
...Ziff brothers, whose fortune came largely from the 1994 sale of the family publishing business built by their father. Since 1996, Ziff Bros. Investments has overseen a $150 million OPIC-guaranteed fund, the South Asia Capital Fund, whose purpose is to make equity investments in India, Indonesia, Laos, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Philippines...
...lament the suburban neighborhoods that grew quiet when television held post-war children in the living room in the hours when they used to play Kick the Can. We can relax as planes, trains and automobiles zip us around the shrinking world--Boston today, New York tomorrow, Sri Lanka the next. We can both love and hate voice mail, call waiting, cell phones, car phones, beepers--they always keep us in touch, but they never leave us alone...
Weeramantry, a native of Sri Lanka, then warned students that now might be the final time to correct the wrongs of the past century...