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How come?
An American psychiatrist was visiting a camp in Vakarai, Batticaloa last week to help traumatized children. He stood in front of the crowd and the first question he asked was “So which one of you is traumatized?”
And all this time we thought it was the job of the psychiatrist to diagnose that.

Even the dogs follow
The JVP held a public meeting at the Colombo Town Hall on Wednesday to protest against the P-TOMS agreement.

Party Secretary General Tilvin Silva was scoffing at claims by a seasoned Government minister from the hills who had claimed that eight JVP members were supporting the agreement. Not so, said Mr. Silva.

“When our party makes a decision, it is not only all of us who follow it but even the dogs in our houses follow,” he boasted. With all the talk of the country having gone to the dogs, it may not be far from the truth.

Jockeying for selection
The Central Committee of the SLFP was scheduled to meet on Thursday but the meeting was abruptly postponed.

When a scribe queried from a party official the reason for the postponement, he said it was because of the election of the Diyawadana Nilame.

All the rivalry surrounding the election of the Diyawadana Nilame sure fades into insignificance when one sees the many hopefuls within the SLFP ranks vying to be its candidate for the next Presidential polls.

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