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...oneself as a weapon can be a relatively effective tactic against an enemy with far superior firepower. And extremist Muslim suicide bombers believe that their sacrifice guarantees them "martyrdom" and a passport to paradise. (That said, suicide attacks aren't unique to Islamist insurgencies. Sri Lanka's mostly Hindu Tamil Tigers have probably conducted more such attacks than any other single group...
...Signing is one thing, but implementation is another. All peace-minded people should support it as it can pave the way for greater collaboration." NIMALAN KARTHIKEYAN, assistant general secretary of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, on the government's approval of a controversial plan allowing Tamil Tiger separatists to share $3 billion in aid for the island's tsunami victims...
...life is not enough, we can offer thousands of lives." KALAWELGALA CHANDRALOKA, secretary of Sri Lanka's National Clerics Front, threatening widespread hunger strikes after one monk's near-death by fasting failed to deter Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga from a plan to distribute tsunami aid to Tamil Tiger rebels...
...scraggly remnants of a once expansive flock, is accosted by a tourist from the U.S. The American wants to buy the stone horse on whose pedestal the Indian sits. The Indian wants to sell his goats. One speaks only English, the other, except for the phrase "Yes, no," only Tamil. After much "mutual mystification," a deal is struck. The shepherd returns to tell his stunned wife that he has made 100 rupees off the goats, even as they appear behind him, bleating at the door...
...life--till the October of 1947, when he found that the people around had begun to speak and act like savages." The assassination of John F. Kennedy reaches this region as a rumor, and a fairly incredible one at that. The slain President's last name sounds like the Tamil word for glass. "Could any man give himself such a name?" asks one local skeptic...