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Bomb Kills 55 in Sri Lanka...
...suspected suicide bomber in Sri Lanka killed at least 55 people, including the leading opposition candidate for President, at a political rally in the outskirts of the capital, Colombo. Gamini Dissanayake, head of the United National Party, was killed along with several other party leaders; more than 200 people were injured. Police said the attack was similar to suicide bombings carried out by ethnic Tamil separatists...
...about the info highway comes face-to-face with the realities of engineering. And what the trials have been showing, say industry observers, is that the top executives who commissioned them have run ahead of their engineers. "It's a constant theme," says Steve Krause, a technology expert at SRI International. "When these projects finally get down to the implementation level, reality hits...
...knows how many -- and we may never know. The bodies not rotting by the roads are buried in mass graves or floating down the rivers, far away from the arithmetic of history. With this latest tragedy in its long litany of tribal massacres, Rwanda joins Angola, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Bosnia and Nagorno- Karabakh in defining what barbarism means in the late 20th century, and defying the rest of the world to try to do something about...
...Iraq to the former Soviet empire to the Balkans, the authoritarian state exists as a piece of machinery, man-made, breakable, the borders etched by diplomats ignorant of or indifferent to ancient claims and tribal hate. Kurds fight for their freedom from Iraq and Turkey; Tamils battle Sinhalese in Sri Lanka; Armenians fight Azerbaijanis in Nagorno-Karabakh; Albanian Muslims and Serbs circle each other in Kosovo. Last week Yemen was the latest country to break apart, as those in the south accused the northerners of attempting to further impoverish them. The struggles can be ancient and visceral, religious and racial...