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...Master Lino Pertile sent an e-mail to Eliot student leaders Tuesday informing them of Gerolimatos’ loss. The House Committee decided to donate $400 the same day, and yesterday started a fund for Gerolimatos to which other students can contribute, according to Committee Co-Chair Geoff S. Harcourt...
...sequestration and introspection. Although observance of Nyepi is enforced by temple authorities, Indonesia, unlike Malaysia, does not have religious police. Yet none of these peccadilloes detracts from the novel's momentum, which continuously hurtles the reader forward. Eliot himself, in an essay defending Wilkie Collins, the Victorian master of melodrama (and author of a great thriller with an Asian setting, The Moonstone), laid down the dictum that the first requirement of any literature is that it be interesting. In this regard, Carey succeeds decisively...
...wants to keep the peace talks going, and though decisions in the LTTE are ultimately made by its enigmatic supremo, Velupillai Prabhakaran, the LTTE's operatives on the ground insist they too want no more bloodshed. "We're talking about peace, we're not talking about war," says Thaya Master, an LTTE spokesman...
...President, insists that his own party will not stop peace negotiations if it comes to power: "We will keep talking with the LTTE, but on different terms." Many observers, though, fear that those changed terms will spell the end of peace. "Wickremesinghe is someone we can talk with," warns Master of the LTTE. "There are other politicians we can't talk with...
...Asia's war on terror. But they were followed by bitter disappointment. Shortly after Tohir and Ismail were nabbed, says National Police chief detective Erwin Mappaseng, two bigger fish got away through a maze of small alleys in Bandung. Police say Dr. Azahari bin Husin, JI's alleged master bombmaker, and Nurdin Mohamad Top, a fellow Malaysian and suspected bomb expert, had been hiding out in a boarding house in Bandung for six weeks. Apparently, the two Malaysians got wind of the earlier arrests-and disappeared. When police searched the Bandung boarding house, they discovered six small bombs. Says...