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Sirimavo Bandaranaike 84 The Sri Lankan was world's first female Prime Minister...
RUNNER-UP: Noodles: The New Way by Sri Owen (Villard; $24.95) Grab your chopsticks! Egg noodles, rice noodles and soba noodles never looked as delicious as they do here. Take a twirl...
DIED. SIRIMAVO BANDARANAIKE, 84, the first woman elected to lead a nation; in Sri Lanka. Bandaranaike, who first became Sri Lankan Prime Minister 40 years ago, served two more separate terms during her turbulent and somewhat patchy political career, resigning from her last post in August. She may have been the first national leader to address the world as "a woman and a mother," but she could be ruthless: her hamhanded suppression of a Marxist insurrection in 1971 resulted in 20,000 casualties. Bandaranaike had a heart attack in a car on her way home from voting in the elections...
...Cinderellas Of the 200 countries that have sent athletes to Sydney, several could only produce the smallest of teams. Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Oman have only one representative each, while Somalia is fielding...
...FARC-ettes," as the women fighters are nicknamed, fascinated me. Before covering Latin America, I'd reported on the Tamil Tiger guerrillas in Sri Lanka. The Tiger women were spooky: They wore cyanide pills around their necks to be consumed in the event of capture, and dozens of them trained as suicide bombers. The FARC-ettes were, well, more Latina. Even when in their fatigues, they wore earrings and pink scrunchees to keep their hair in place, and listened to music on tiny radios. While sex had been forbidden among the Tigers, the FARC's more relaxed view is evidenced...