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Sunday, April 29, 2007
Vol. 41 - No 48
 
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Political Column
  After the World Cup, the bigger match
  By Our Political Editor
  Ousted Cabinet Minister Mangala Samaraweera was at his official residence at Stanmore Crescent when his mobile phone rang on Tuesday evening. He did not think that by responding to the call, it would lead to what may portend to be a new direction in his political career.
5th Column
  World champs like no other in all facets
  By Rypvanwinkle
  "Thaaththa," Bindu Udagedera asked, "what do you think of the World Cup?"
"Why," Bindu's father Percy asked, "is there anything else that this country has thought of in the past few weeks?"
Situation Report
  Thursday's air terror: The grim story
  By Iqbal Athas
  During days of World War II, the British Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm had established a number of land-based air stations in jungle clearings in Sri Lanka, then Ceylon. They were to support air operations against the Japanese in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific theatre of war. One of them was HMS Regolia at Palavi near Puttalam.
The Economic Analysis
  Not published with this week issue
  By the Economist
   
Thoughts from London
  Lone crusader has Norway hitting the panic buttons
  By Neville de Silva
  As children many of us have read the tales of Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen. Those fairy tales surely gave us hours of pleasure as we entered a care free world of make believe. Now another Andersen from another Scandinavian nation has taken to writing ‘fairy’ tales.
Issue of the week
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  By Ameen Izzadeen
   
Focus on Rights
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  By Kishali Pinto Jayawardena
 

 

Lobby
  Not published with this week issue.
  By Chandani Kirinde, Our Lobby Correspondent
   
Inside the glass house
  A Wolfowitz in sheep’s clothing
  By Thalif Deen at the united nations
  NEW YORK - The embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, who has been crusading against corrupt governments since he took office in 2005, is desperately struggling to save his job. At the time of going to press, he was hanging by a thread. The former US Deputy Defence Secretary, one of the prime architects of the disastrous US war on Iraq, has been reviled for his political double standards:
 
 
 
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