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Deaths un-Said 2007-02-21 02:13:00 (As Israel Destroys Enemy Homes. Arab East Jerusalem. Jan. 15, 2003.) WEST PALM BEACH, Florida -- Today I have located some statistics and sources that aid in documenting the number of Palestinian and Israeli deaths during the al-Aqsa (or, Second) Intifada. None of the fatality counts, which are presented by the California-based nonprofit organization ?ProCon.org,? were triggered before Prime ...

Music to Mutur Town 1970-01-01 00:59:59 TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka -- In the most immature morning light, before the full mass of Sunday ravens had awaken, the insects and island birds performed in populist concert. The pre-dawn prelude was by percussion section. I can not declare that it was the boom of long-off bombing and not instead the odd rumble of thunder. Certainly, sound check for a rock concert seems unlikely. It was day two of ...

Diplomacy, Death, Desire 1970-01-01 00:59:59 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher met Thursday with President Mahinda Rajapaksa ahead of peace talks between the Colombo government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which talks are set to start Oct. 28 in Geneva. This island's "Daily News" print periodical published a Friday story about Boucher's visit under the page-1 headline "US reassures support ...

Tectonics 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (At the Road to Haiti's Hotel Montana. Feb. 12, 2006.) WEST PALM BEACH, Florida -- The U.S. Geological Survey reported on Sunday Oct. 8 from Denver that it had recorded a preliminary Richter magnitude 4.2 seismic event occurring several hundred miles outside the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. The recording coincided chronologically with (but cannot alone substantiate) de facto President Kim ...

Geneva Eve 1970-01-01 00:59:59 TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka -- Strange how at certain times in certain places the simple things become imbued with new significance: choosing a T-shirt (black, beige, or grey); brushing the brim of a dime-store cap; pulling back a dirty curtain in this calm dawn to find that the SUVs of aid organizations have bred and multiplied quietly in the night. There is no form of terror for me to contend with ...

Pain on the Plaza 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (After the Shootings at Plaza Francia. Aug. 16, 2004.) CARACAS, Venezuela -- I was surprised to find, when I arrived in the capital suburb Altamira last evening, a well-organized group of President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías supporters rallying on the corner directly across from Plaza Francia. The participants were buttressed by amplified campaign music, typical red paraphernalia, and slogans -- ...

Old Friends and Devils 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (Cheering a Chávez Win at Miraflores. Caracas, Venezuela. Aug. 16, 2004.) WEST PALM BEACH, Florida -- In his capital this morning Venezuelan president Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was formally sworn in to serve his third term until 2013, according to the Bolivarian Republic?s embassy in Washington, D.C. As part of the ritual Chávez visited the grave site of Caracas-born Latin American revolutionary ...

Kathiraveli Killings (Part 1) 1970-01-01 00:59:59 WEST PALM BEACH, Florida -- While no one at "magazine 3C" can claim to have been any witness I do believe that the Sri Lankan armed forces have rained hot death down on a group of primarily tattered Tamil war refugees who had been trying to eke out a living along the tsunami-racked sea coast in Batticaloa District. The Nov. 8, 2006, bombardment of Kathiraveli village along the northeastern shore ...

A Dim Train 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (Carrying Nadarajah Raviraj's Coffin. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Nov. 13, 2006.) WEST PALM BEACH, Florida -- The foundation of her nearly full-cover ensemble was discreetly dark. In fact it was black. But she was also fashionably satin-ish and embellished in a glittering if traditional Sri Lankan Salwar-Kameez style. It was promptly obvious to me, though, that it was her complex spirit and natural-born ...

In Israel 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (At Gavriel Hoter's Grave. Dec. 29, 2002.) WEST PALM BEACH, Florida -- In Israel, I spent eight January days almost not talking. I had expected to be physically inspected and briefly but sharply interrogated at airports and questioned at borders, but after five years I had forgotten that some overtly unofficial individuals around and within the State might zealously question me. Although no ...