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| What’s in a letter? |
Where do love letters fit in amidst texting, IM’s, tweets and Facebook posts? “They relate to a simpler, more nostalgic time,” reflects Tracy Holsinger.
Harking back to a time when communication took the form of letters, A. R. Gurney’s Pulitzer Prize winning drama performed by Mohamed (Adam) Adamaly and Tracy Holsinger, and once again ....... |
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| Crisis-hit Bangladesh apparel buyers turn to Sri Lanka |
Sri Lanka’s apparel exports are growing at a considerable rate with local factories are getting more overseas orders as many low end garment orders placed in factories in Bangladesh have been badly affected by a social crisis there coupled with violent riots which has disrupted production.
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| Mubarak stays put |
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak huddled with his new government for the first time today, and the executive committee of his ruling party quit en masse, on day 12 of mass protests against his regime. |
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| Horizon Campus opens to broaden your horizon |
Horizon Campus held its Inauguration ceremony on January 28 in the presence of the Minister of Higher Education, S.B. Dissanayake. The project will see the amalgamation of the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) and iNurture (The Education Solutions Provider) with Horizon Campus to give students an overseas education experience in the home soil in Malabe. |
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| It’s serious business for the Sri Lankans |
The Lankans go into their final ODI against the West Indies today and will vie for another comfortable win to keep their morale high in their run to the more important World Cup in their own backyard thirteen days hence.
Yes, the weather once again would play a major role in the final outcome as more rains are predicted by the authorities. |
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| EDITORIAL |
| Independence
2011 and beyond |
Last year, around this time in this space, we had hoped that National Day celebrations would have been marked in the northern citadel of Jaffna "in recognition of the fact that we were, after so many years of strife, able to celebrate as one country". Kilinochchi or even Batticaloa would have done.
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| COLUMNS |
| The politics of floods and the food crisis -- Political Column |
The forces of nature repeated their wrath for a second time in three weeks in the North Central Province, the country's largest and an important 'food basket', and the Eastern Province. If the surging floods last month left thousands homeless and destroyed vast extents .... |
| Fitting thoughts for post - independence day -- Focus on Rights |
In discussions with a group of colleagues from a provincial Bar this week, one question provoked spirited and at times, heated debate. In admitting that there are serious flaws in the working of Sri Lanka’s legal system, are we providing avenues for internationalists who have their own agendas, to intervene in the internal affairs of this country?
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| Candace steals the heat in Galle |
Even though she’s in a simple blue dress, Candace Bushnell, the internationaly bestselling author of Sex and the City, cuts a glamorous figure as she walks into the Hall de Galle café. All eyes are on the slim, blonde and sexy writer as she saunters over for her interview during last week’s Galle Literary Festival, where she drew some of the biggest crowds, her sessions having sold out well ahead. |
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| The great army in search of
Veediya Bandara |
Once Commander Veediya Bandara entered the battlefield he wielded his sword and displayed his martial prowess, almost like a lunatic. He did not care what happened. His only intention was winning the battle. Father Queros
states that when this
warrior entered the
battlefield, neither the Portuguese nor the Sinhalese of Sitawaka, could remain without being shaken and disturbed. |
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