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...that Sri Lanka is drifting back into civil war between the Sinhalese government and the Tamil Tigers after a four-year cease-fire. Your story recounted the amazement of former Johns Hopkins visiting scholar Dayan Jayatilleka as he witnessed soldiers' donating blood for Tamils in the days after the tsunami. He said, "It was a magical moment. Then it was gone." Despite such pessimism, Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict could still be prevented from returning to civil war if everyone would reject the hollow argument that the Sinhalese and Tamils are fundamentally and irreconcilably different. That false division was based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...that Sri Lanka is drifting back into civil war between the Sinhalese government and the Tamil Tigers after a four-year cease-fire. Your story recounted the amazement of former Johns Hopkins visiting scholar Dayan Jayatilleka as he witnessed soldiers' donating blood for Tamils in the days after the tsunami. He said, "It was a magical moment. Then it was gone." Despite such pessimism, Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict could still be prevented from returning to civil war if everyone would reject the hollow argument that the Sinhalese and Tamils are fundamentally and irreconcilably different. That false division was based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Google Empire | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

With a net worth of $23.7 billion, Alwaleed is one of the world’s leading philanthropists. While Islamic understanding is the motive behind many of his institutional gifts, the prince has also given $19 million toward Tsunami relief and $20 million for victims of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan...

Author: By Giuliana Vetrano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Strings Attached? | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...THERE MORE SUPPORT AUSTRALIA COULD GIVE THEM? I think we've given them a lot, and we'll continue. Clearly the big response to the tsunami moved the relationship onto a new plane. Australia was almost in nominal terms - and certainly proportionately - the most generous respondent to the tsunami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecting with the People | 2/27/2006 | See Source »

...Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will tackle many issues at the summit, including tsunami relief, supporting the Afghan government, Iran's nuclear ambitions, returning democracy to Nepal, and containing avian flu. But one of the most crucial items on the agenda is the two nations' impending Nuclear Agreement. Last July, Singh and Bush agreed on the broad outlines of a nuclear deal that would require India to separate its military and civilian nuclear programs. In exchange the U.S. would share nuclear technology with India, whose population now exceeds one billion and whose energy demand has been voracious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Passage to India | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

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