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When Thavarasan Singham returned to his grocery shop in May, the shutters were still riddled with bullet holes. Back in 1990, Singham's town of Mankulam, in northern Sri Lanka, was caught in the cross fire between Tamil guerrillas and Sri Lanka's predominantly Sinhalese army. After the Tamil fighters retreated, the army drove into Mankulam. Singham knew what was coming next. Pulling down the shutters of his shop, he ran out the back door with his wife and four children, just before bullets and mortar shells burst into every store in the Tamil-dominated village. For the next...
...Like Singham, millions of other Sri Lankans are finally beginning to rebuild their lives. As the 20-month cease-fire between the government and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) brings Sri Lanka its first real respite from a 20-year civil war, the island nation of 19 million people is enjoying its biggest economic boom in decades. Foreign tourists are rediscovering Sri Lanka's fabled beaches, local consumers are on a spending binge and corporate profits are surging. The economy is expected to grow by 5.5% this year. Land prices are rising, and the stock market...
...looking for a few good Pashto speakers. Also, according to an appeal posted on the FBI website today, the bureau is seeking fluent speakers and readers of Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Malay, Malayalam, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Swahili, Tajik, Thai, Tamil, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Uigur, Urdu, Uzbek, and Vietnamese...
...scattered around the world. But Uigur? Margaret Gulotta, chief of the FBI?s language services program, says this Turkish-based language, spoken by about eight million people in China?s Sinkiang Uigur autonomous region, has come up occasionally in terrorism cases.. Ditto Amharic and Tigrinya, spoken in Ethiopia, Tamil, the language of the Sri Lankan terrorist group Tamil Tigers, and the dialects of Southeast Asia, where Muslim extremism is rising. ?About 90 percent of the world?s population speak [one of] 60 or 70 languages,? says Gulotta, ?but there are about 6000 languages and dialects spoken in the world...
...adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility takes place in the unlikely world of South India, focusing on the lives of two girls and their romances with an aspiring New York filmmaker, an injured soldier, and a young man working in the stock market. In Tamil with English subtitles. 3 p.m. $8 students. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...