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...months-long push by the Sri Lankan military appears to have mortally wounded the group, considered by the United States a terrorist organization, trapping the Tigers (and thousands of Tamil civilians) on a narrow strip of land. As the government closes in, Prabhakaran's whereabouts are unknown. He could be dead, he could be alive, he could have already left the country - regardless, he remains the most influential person in Sri Lanka's recent history. (See pictures of life in the territories previously controlled by the Tamil Tigers...
...charges over a land deal, Thaksin is now living in self-imposed exile to avoid serving a two-year prison sentence while another Thai court mulls the fate of about $2 billion of his assets seized on suspicion they were gained through corruption. The former leaders whereabouts are currently unknown, but allegations that he is in neighboring Cambodia have contributed to strained relations between the two countries. (See pictures of the August 2008 Thai protests...
...While the medications currently prescribed are already much safer in the short term than the ones commonly used during the study period, their long-term effects on health are still unknown, since they simply haven't been circulating long enough for any damaging side effects to have surfaced. But, Ho notes, "I always felt the side effects of HIV are greater than the side effects of the drugs." After all, he says, "the side effect of unchecked HIV is death...
...Tuesday, seniors dutifully checked the website set up to reveal this year’s Class Day speaker selection, but, of course, they were foolish to believe that a single website could long survive bearing the weight of the name of this then-unknown titan of entertainment. And, in fact, it came crashing down. When word finally spread from the Senior Class Committee that the elected speaker would be Matt Lauer, some laughed and some cried. His name sounded vaguely familiar to us, so we keyed up Wikipedia and YouTube to recall the accomplishments of this luminary, whoever...
...Founded two major companies, one dealing with paper-processing. The nature of the other business is unknown. Medvedev is also the author of several legal textbooks...