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...Premadasa had some mental quirks. After his election as President in 1988, he increasingly likened himself to Sri Lanka's miracle-working Buddhist kings of old. Until recently, he also avoided overseas travel, reputedly after astrologers warned of his death should he leave the island. The precaution was in vain. Last Saturday, while officiating at a festive May Day parade in Colombo, the 68-year-old President of low-caste birth was blown to bits by a suicidal assassin laden with explosives. At least 15 bystanders were also killed in this latest outbreak of political violence that has convulsed India...
...communities at Harvard. How dare we sit back and proclaim with self-assurance that our ceremonies, will prevent--and indeed, are currently preventing--genocide from taking place again? Until we assure that genocide is not happening anywhere, until our reminders stir us to action, our ceremonies will be in vain...
...molded himself a crude set of false teeth. At 16, he ran away to Denver and got a job as a railway brakeman. He also made a friend, nicknamed College, whose family in Maine welcomed Jonathan after their son's death. Jonathan traveled the country in a vain search for his father -- someone to give him an anchor and a bloodline. In time he became a circuit rider and a pioneer farmer. He married and sired children. He neither forgot nor forgave the past. The novel's climax is a fatal, vengeful encounter with his boyhood nemesis, Alvah Stoke...
...accepts. They quarrel while Diana and her one-night stand get lovey-dovey, but then things turn out fine. Because director Adrian Lyne takes all this so slowly and seriously, Indecent Proposal is an inadvertent comedy. As such, it is much funnier than Honeymoon in Vegas, which tried in vain to be funny about the same idea...
Ethnic Serbian crowds near the Bosnian town of Zvornik, 70 miles northeast of Sarajevo, block -- and eventually turn back -- a rescue convoy carrying the U.N. commander, General Philippe Morillon. The military procession was headed for the surrounded enclave of Srebrenica, where 15,000 Muslims await evacuation, thus far in vain. Despite a World Court ruling in Bosnia's favor against alleged aggression, and the debut slated this week of NATO warplanes to enforce what so far has been a meaningless ban on military flights above Bosnian territory, there remains scant international consensus to punish Serbia for refusing to recognize...