Stories about People in Colombo
Great Wave, Silver LiningKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] For some reason disasters occur only when I go home to visit my family. It is as if the forces of stability and chaos wish to remind me that neither will ever vanquish the other, that yin and yang are...
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Malaysia |
Burma |
Colombo |
Indonesia |
Aceh |
India |
Kuala Lumpur |
Phnom Penh |
Andhra Pradesh |
Sri Lanka |
Maldives |
Phuket |
Cambodia |
Thailand |
Yangon
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Dispatches from Sri LankaJeff Greenwald - jgreenwald [1,931] Dispatch 4: Toy Story 15 January 2005 POTTUVIL, SRI LANKA -- The Sri Lanka offices of Mercy Corps occupy a single room on Dharmapala Mawatha, in a building run by the Academy for Educational...
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Sri Lanka |
Colombo
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Dispatches from Sri LankaJeff Greenwald - jgreenwald [1,931] Dispatch 2: Sri Lanka, Revisited 8 January 2005 In January of 1984, two months shy of my 30th birthday, I explored the west coast of Sri Lanka on one of my first travel assignments. My girlfriend Teri...
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Colombo
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Dispatches from Sri LankaJeff Greenwald - jgreenwald [1,931] Dispatch 7: Tea with the Tigers 22 January 2005 SAMBOOR, SRI LANKA -The pace of work has been relentless. Don't know if it's because I'm inspired, or because I was starved for inspiration for so long,...
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Sri Lanka |
Colombo
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Dispatches from Sri LankaJeff Greenwald - jgreenwald [1,931] Dispatch 5: Toy Story 2 15 January 2005 To a lot of people, the image of relief agencies in developing countries is the image of giant Toyota Land Cruisers, churning down a dirt road with the windows...
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Sri Lanka |
Colombo
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Dispatches from Sri LankaJeff Greenwald - jgreenwald [1,931] Dispatch 6: A Journey Through the East 19 January 2005 TRINCOMALEE - Two weeks in Sri Lanka. Nearly all of what I've written, even in my journal, has been for publication. Haven't had any time to...
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Sri Lanka |
Colombo
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Dispatches from Sri LankaJeff Greenwald - jgreenwald [1,931] Dispatch 3: The Buried Village 11 January 2005 POTTUVIL, SRI LANKA - Aboard the Blackhawk helicopter, his ears plugged against the roar of the rotors, a US Marine in a flak jacket pencils me a note:...
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Sri Lanka |
Colombo
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Dispatches from Sri LankaJeff Greenwald - jgreenwald [1,931] Dispatch 1: Up in the Air En route to Sri Lanka 6 January 2005 In the Air, BKK to Singapore There is no predicting, at this point, what I will find, or even what I'll write. This whole trip came...
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Sri Lanka |
Colombo
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