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Sadly, suicide bombings are nothing new.(Local Opinion)

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From: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Date: 20080206
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Byline: Sriram Khe For The Register-Guard

Iraq and Sri Lanka are thousands of miles apart and have distinct cultures, but they have at least one thing in common: suicide bombing.

Persian and Arab maritime explorers gave Sri Lanka the name Serendip, because of how this enchanting land suddenly came out of nowhere. It was from the same idea that, centuries later, Sir Horace Walpole coined the word "serendipity" to signify something fantastic that we chance upon while searching for something else. It is an unfortunate irony that the island that gave us the word "serendipity" ...

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