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...marked the anniversary of the 1983 anti-Tamil riots, when more than 400 people died, provoking the ongoing civil war. Three weeks ago President Chandrika Kumaratunga suspended parliament for two months after her People's Alliance government lost its majority in the 225-seat body. GREAT BRITAIN Save the Whales Despite intense pressure from Japan and Norway, the International Whaling Commission meeting in London ended without a vote on repealing a ban on commercial whaling. Japan, which catches several hundred Minke whales annually for "scientific research," and Norway, which did not sign the 1986 moratorium, argued that populations of several...
...himself too mythic to bathe regularly or use his given name. Einhorn means "one horn," so he called himself the Unicorn. When it wasn't fair maidens he was after, it was the company of nags like Rubin, Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg. He ingested enough drugs to kill a whale. He organized be-ins. He called himself a planetary enzyme and "sort of smelled like a hoagie with onions all the time," as a friend puts it. For Philadelphia, a social and political backwater in which consciousness raising was a billy club to the head, Einhorn was, all alone...
When the case lands back in district court, it will get a new judge. That's good news for Microsoft, since Jackson's pursuit of Gates was beginning to resemble Ahab's pursuit of a certain whale. But the bad news is that the appeals court asked for potentially prolonged new hearings on issues, especially the question of whether it was legal for Microsoft to tie its browser to its operating system. The last thing Microsoft wants is to have this case to drag on for years...
...arduous process of reading over the folders of the graduating seniors when they were applying for admission more than four years ago. He creatively complimented the seniors, whom he called “the caffeine in our cappucino” and the “Jonah in our whale...
...also can face perils from these encounters. Recent data are hard to come by, since swim programs are not required to report human injuries. But a 1995 study in the U.S. found that dolphins, particularly those in unstructured swim-with programs, occasionally acted aggressively toward humans. The British-based Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society claims it has witnessed three encounters at Manati that endangered humans...