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Like her country, Sinnathambi Jeevatharsini is beauty torn. Just 9 years old, she has long black hair tied up in two loose knots on either side of her head, and a smile that explodes across her face, as if someone has switched on a spotlight. She's smart, too, likes social studies best, and especially learning about different cultures in far-off lands. Crouched on a mat in a refugee camp on Sri Lanka's east coast, flicking the pages of a schoolbook, pencil by her side, she looks like a normal kid. And then you spot it: Jeevatharsini...
...L.T.T.E., a group born out of the belief that Sri Lanka's Sinhalese Buddhist majority will never treat the country's mostly Hindu Tamil minority as equals or give them the autonomy they long for. Since independence in 1948, "all the agreements we have reached have been torn up and thrown into the dustbin," L.T.T.E. Peace Secretariat secretary-general Pulee Devan told TIME by phone from the Tigers' jungle base in Kilinochchi, in the north. "Fifty years' experience has dictated to us that there is no big difference who is in power in the capital. They have all failed...
CONTEXT Senator John McCain strolled through Shorja--an open market in Baghdad--to prove that Americans have a warped view of the war-torn area. CNN correspondent Michael Ware challenged McCain's analysis: "I don't know what part of Neverland Senator McCain is talking about when he says we can go strolling in Baghdad...
...days Piero is the city's star, even if it wasn't always that way. Bertelli, one of the three co-curators of the exhibit, calls Piero "an unlucky artist," because some of his greatest works were permanently lost, including frescoes in Ferrara (after his patron died, they were torn down) and in the Vatican (to make room for Raphael frescoes in the early 16th century). But his surviving works show a subtle mastery that influenced Raphael, Venetian painter Gentile Bellini and visiting Flemish painters along the Adriatic coast. He even inspired 20th century surrealists...
Twice now Harvard has summoned Derek C. Bok to put out fires. When he arrived in 1971, the University was torn by the violent removal of anti-Vietnam War student protesters from University Hall. And while the campus environment was less revolutionary when Bok took the reigns again in July, he still had plenty of cleaning up to do to smooth relations with groups of professors, alumni, and students who were disaffected after the forced removal of a president. In Bok, the University found a shepherd to guide a prolonged curricular review, oversee a major campus expansion into Allston...