The Sunday Times Sri Lanka | Sunday October 28, 2007

PLUS	FINANCIAL TIMES
When heroism reigned over terror	Tax chief misled PAC - Hakeem
A paper trail into the past………leading back more than 50 years to a time unlike now, when even one brutal murder sent waves of shock and horror across the country. In an era sans television, newspapers were grabbed off the stands, with the public poring over every word, line and black and...	Legal experts and parliamentarians have expressed divergent views over a Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) decision to ask the Finance Ministry to probe the Tax chief over alleged involvement in the VAT fraud amounting to Rs 3.57 billion.While some members of the PAC said the committee had taken a decision to send a letter requesting that Tax Commissioner-General A.A. Wijepala.....
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il b kmg dar 2 mor 2c S cz I...	Kottu feast
“It’s almost impossible to understand!” says Dr. Dushyanthi Mendis. We are leaning over a mobile phone, struggling through a thicket of acronyms; a virtual forest of abbreviations – and just barely getting somewhere. Perhaps it’s the complete lack of punctuation.....	It was 2,100 kg of kottu for some 4,000 guests who flocked the Hilton Colombo on Sunday for a one of a kind event. Forty chefs from the hotel’s Curry Leaf restaurant worked through the evening to prepare 7,000 portions of chicken kottu to meet the excess .....
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COLUMNS
Political	Thoughts from London
LTTE attacks Air base; Govt. attacks media	From bluster to more bluff and blunder

Situation Report	Focus on Rights
Pre-dawn pounce	Discussing mock turtles and commissions of....
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SPORTS	INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY MUSINGS \| S.R. Pathiravithana	INTERNATIONAL \| Gahri Khudabaksh, Pakistan
In a country Murali bashing is a sport	Bhutto braves threats, arrives in....
It is a well known fact that it is only the hard at heart who can go to Australia for a cricket series and survive to fight another day. The slightest hint of a team/player or both posing a threat to their supremacy will set off a rankling which will have many .......	Benazir Bhutto arrived in her ancestral village today amid tight security in her first public trip in Pakistan since suicide bombers shattered her homecoming parade. Several thousand people clapped and chanted “Benazir” as the former premier arrived in a bullet-proof jeep .....

Notes from Down Under \| Chaminda Vaas	INTERNATIONAL \| Singapore
Taking up the Aussie challenge.....	Rocking party at 40,000 feet
Australia, the largest test playing nation is also currently the best. To beat them in their own country is test cricket’s greatest challenge. In a few days, Sri Lanka will be taking on that task. Such an opportunity is a dream come true for any professional cricketer and we are relishing the challenge.Although the two test tour takes place in Brisbane,.....	Thomas Lee on Thursday became one of the first passengers aboard the world's largest commercial aircraft - again. In 1970, at the age of 17, Lee rode with his family on the inaugural flight of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet from New York to London .....
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MIRROR	FUNDAY
Everybody plays the fool	The invasion of Bruma
"When shall we meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain?" Well, in rain anyway, because I have noticed that's when you run into your most hated male mistakes. Always when it's raining – he suddenly turns up with a brand-new shiny blonde on his arm, whose hair seems to just repel water.	King Parakramabahu assembled his commanders. He explained in detail, all the ill-treatment and the risks suffered by the Sinhala traders, on their visits to Burma. He made it clear to them that the only solution left, was war.The king added, .....
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TV TIMES	MEDISCENE
Shirley's soothing songs
‘I sing on love for I believe that it is the only everlasting theme that comforts all human beings despite their age barriers’ said Visharadha Shirley Waijayantha making a return to singing after a lapse of a long years.	Moving you to previous issue dated Sunday October 21, 2007.
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