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Political
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President faces battles on several fronts |
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By Our Political Editor |
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At no time before has any Government prosecuting the separatist war against Tiger guerrillas felt so helpless and hopeless. Not once but four times within a month, the guerrillas demonstrated their air strike capability and got away with impunity.
Last Sunday, the fourth time was more striking. |
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5th
Column |
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Well done you played the game against all odds |
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By Rypvanwinkle |
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My Dear Mahela and the Team,
I thought I must write to you because the entire country was looking forward to your performances over the past few weeks and you didnt disappoint them-even though you couldnt quite become world champions.
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Situation
Report |
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Govt. takes off for sky war |
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By Iqbal Athas |
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 Some forty minutes after Sunday April 29 had dawned, air traffic controllers at the Sri Lanka Air Force base in Vavuniya observed two blips on their radar. No air movements had been reported to them during that hour. They figured out they were two aircraft from the Tiger guerrilla air wing heading in a southerly direction. |
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The
Economic Analysis |
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Cricket lessons for economic management |
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By the Economist |
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 Being the runner-up in the Cricket World Cup is an admirable achievement. This was possible owing to our cricket being managed in a professional manner. There are several significant lessons from Sri Lanka Cricket that is relevant for the management of the economy. What are the important lessons from cricket for the economy? |
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Thoughts
from London |
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Mother of parliaments becomes mother of all jokes |
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By Neville de Silva |
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 As students of political science we were taught that the British House of Commons was the mother of parliaments and should be respected if not revered.
Having listened to the Commons debate on Sri Lanka last week I am more inclined to concur with the growing feeling here that parliament like British politics is fast losing public respect and instead earning public derision. |
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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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Farcical statements and violations of the constitution |
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By Kishali Pinto
Jayawardena |
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The fantastically absurd assertion in clause three of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party's retrogressive constitutional reform proposals that the party 'strongly believes in the independence of the judiciary,' (in the context of the SLFP's proclaimed stance on the unit of devolution), is pure political farce. |
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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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Why Washington now admits that Olmert lost Lebanon war |
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By Thalif Deen at the united nations |
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 NEW YORK - A committee that investigated Israel's failed war against Lebanon last July has come up with a report whose findings have a striking parallel to the American debacle in Iraq.
The study, whose revelations triggered a 150,000-strong protest march in Tel Aviv last week, was a damning critique of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's role in that disastrous war last summer. |
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