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| Political
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Attacks on media: The story unfolds |
| "Are you confident," asked Robert Blake, the senior-most official in the Obama administration to visit Sri Lanka in recent months, from President Mahinda Rajapaksa last Tuesday. "If I am not, I would not have called for a Presidential poll," he replied and added, "come and see me again after I win." |
| 5th
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We’re never safe
from being ‘shocked’ till we’re dead |
My Dear SB,
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| The Economic Analysis |
| Will the spectre of inflation reappear? |
| This year was characterised by a low rate of inflation. It was the lowest in the last five years. In the past four years the rate of inflation averaged an annual 15 percent. Significantly in this period the rate of inflation accelerated from 10 percent i 2004, to 11 percent in 2005 and then to 15.6 percent in 2007. |
| Lobby |
| Fleas and dogs: The irony of sleeping with the enemy |
| Robert Taber, a US investigative journalist/writer in his 1965 classic study of guerrilla warfare, “War of the Flea” compares the guerrilla to the flea and his military enemy to the dog and concludes that while the dog finally falls victim to anaemia and exhaustion, the flea emerges the ultimate winner. |
| Focus on Rights |
| Would you want our votes, Mr President? |
| If at all President Mahinda Rajapaksa must be congratulated for steadfastly refusing to provide the proverbial 'floating voter' in the country, (to which healthy category this columnist most happily belongs by the way), with any solid basis as to why votes should be cast for him in the first instance. |
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