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| Kumar’s French conn ection |
Reserved, timid and with a persistent stammer, a younger Kumar de Silva fought seemingly unsurmountable odds to become the prominent television personality that he is today. While that may sound like the plot of a hacked success story, Kumar’s experiences are nothing short of inspirational. |
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| Battle of the ‘Colas’ |
Coca-Cola, Pepsi and KiK from Elephant House, owned by the John Keells Group, are most likely to be involved in a major battle of the ‘colas’ pumping in huge investments into the product and brand with demand seen rising sharply for the Cricket World Cup to be played in the Indian sub-continent starting on February 17 and ending with the final on April 2.
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| Itlaian Premier faces probe on prostitute link |
Controversial Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was under fire again as it emerged on Friday he is being investigated for extortion and underage prostitution.
The probe on Mr. Berlusconi, 74, centres on his relationship with a belly dancer called Karima el Mahroug, then 17, who was a guest at a party he hosted at his home last year. |
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| Industry experts praise the 12 Month MBA at Oxford College of Business |
An MBA will open doors to positions in just about every large international and local corporation. With an MBA from an accredited Business School, like the Australian Institute of Business Administration, you will have the confidence and background to tackle interviews for not only entry-level positions but for higher-grade positions as well. |
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| Going to war without
the pitch advantage |
It was just four years ago that an English team carrying the names of Strauss, Cook, Pietersen, Collingwood and Bresnan crashed to a five-nil home defeat at the hands of a Lankan unit ably led by Mahela Jayawardena in the ODI series that followed the 1-all test series. |
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| EDITORIAL |
| The disease within the disaster |
Sri Lankans in all parts of the island had firsthand experience this week of what is known in environmental circles worldwide as the 'La Nina' effect. About a million people have been directly affected, there have been 27 deaths, 12 people missing and as many as 360,000 rendered homeless. The full impact of the devastating flood waters is going to be felt countrywide in the months ahead with the destruction of thousands of acres of rice fields and vegetable cultivations.
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| COLUMNS |
| Seniors bother MR and juniors plague Ranil -- Political Column |
On Thursday he met with publishers and editors of national newspapers. He followed the same ritual on Friday with Colombo-based foreign correspondents and other accredited journalists. Over Kiribath (milk rice), hoppers and string hoppers. ..... |
| A rogues’ gallery in local government -- Focus on Rights |
The queue of hopeful candidates waiting to get nominations from Sri Lanka’s political parties for the upcoming local government elections brings to mind irresistible and immediate parallels with .....
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| Knox and Defoe revisited |
“Crusoe explores the intertwined lives of two real men: Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox and the character and book that emerged from their peculiar conjunction. It is the biography of a book and its hero, the story of Defoe, the man who wrote Robinson Crusoe, and of Robert Knox, the man who was Crusoe.” |
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| The museum with a story Anne Frank House |
For the
Anne Frank House, the memory of Anne Frank is directly related to a concern of preserving freedom and maintaining human rights and a pluralistic and
democratic society,” says Mrs. Hans Westra, Director of the Anne Frank House on my visit to the Anne Frank House in the Netherlands. |
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| Double trouble in Hospital |
Defining hospital-associated or nosocomial infections, Consultant Microbiologist Dr. Rohan Chinniah who is a Senior Lecturer at the Colombo Medical Faculty says these are infections that were neither present nor incubating within a person at the time he/she is admitted to the health-care facility. “They may appear even after the patient is discharged.” |
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