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...cancellations while waiting for last-minute tickets. We give it a shot. "What are you waiting for?" Three older men in too-short running shorts, tank tops, and sweatbands approach. We explain about Shakespeare in the Park, about people sleeping overnight on Central Park West. "Oh," says one man. "the neighborhood's going to the dogs." Another adds: "Four pretty girls should never sleep on the street...

Author: By Emily C. Graff | Title: The Summer of our Discontent | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

...interested in finding out how he was shot, but whoever that was deserved some credit. The most important thing is that he's no more. I would have preferred to bring him here and have a chat with him. I have never seen this man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Tamed the Tamil Tigers | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...Lanka's 26-year civil war between the government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) came to a dramatic end in May with a decisive military victory and the killing of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tigers' fearsome leader. President Mahinda Rajapaksa is the man who tamed the Tigers. Now his task is to heal a nation still divided by tensions between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils. In a rare, wide-ranging interview, Rajapaksa, 63, talked with TIME's Jyoti Thottam at the President's official compound in Colombo on July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Tamed the Tamil Tigers | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...What if an elected government is acting against its own people? Are you going to punish [all the] citizens for that or the man who is responsible? Take me. Say that I violated all these human rights, killed people, right? Do you punish me, Mahinda Rajapaksa, or the innocent people of this country by sanctions, embargoes, travel advisories? There are ways of punishing me if you want. There, now by saying that, I will get punished. [Laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Tamed the Tamil Tigers | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...happening in Colombo. The eastern-province Muslims have come here. The Tamils have come here. You ask them, Why are you coming here? Can I stop them? No. If anybody wants to come and live in any part of this island, it is the right of a man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Tamed the Tamil Tigers | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

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