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Political
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After the World Cup, the bigger match |
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By Our Political Editor |
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Ousted Cabinet Minister Mangala Samaraweera was at his official residence at Stanmore Crescent when his mobile phone rang on Tuesday evening. He did not think that by responding to the call, it would lead to what may portend to be a new direction in his political career. |
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5th
Column |
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World champs like no other in all facets |
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By Rypvanwinkle |
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"Thaaththa," Bindu Udagedera asked, "what do you think of the World Cup?"
"Why," Bindu's father Percy asked, "is there anything else that this country has thought of in the past few weeks?" |
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Situation
Report |
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Thursday's air terror: The grim story |
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By Iqbal Athas |
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During days of World War II, the British Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm had established a number of land-based air stations in jungle clearings in Sri Lanka, then Ceylon. They were to support air operations against the Japanese in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific theatre of war. One of them was HMS Regolia at Palavi near Puttalam. |
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The
Economic Analysis |
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Not published with this week issue |
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By the Economist |
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Thoughts
from London |
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Lone crusader has Norway hitting the panic buttons |
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By Neville de Silva |
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 As children many of us have read the tales of Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen. Those fairy tales surely gave us hours of pleasure as we entered a care free world of make believe.
Now another Andersen from another Scandinavian nation has taken to writing ‘fairy’ tales. |
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Issue
of the week |
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Not published with this week issue |
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By Ameen Izzadeen |
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Focus
on Rights |
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Not published with this week issue |
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By Kishali Pinto
Jayawardena |
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Lobby |
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Not published with this week issue. |
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By Chandani Kirinde, Our
Lobby Correspondent |
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Inside
the glass house |
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A Wolfowitz in sheep’s clothing |
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By Thalif Deen at the united nations |
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 NEW YORK - The embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, who has been crusading against corrupt governments since he took office in 2005, is desperately struggling to save his job. At the time of going to press, he was hanging by a thread.
The former US Deputy Defence Secretary, one of the prime architects of the disastrous US war on Iraq, has been reviled for his political double standards: |
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