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Sunday September 2, 2007
Vol. 42 - No 14
 
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Political Column
  Make or break vote in parliament
  By Our Political Editor
 
The first tough test of strength for the fledgling almost two year-old Mahinda Rajapaksa regime will come in Parliament in the coming weeks. The opposition National Congress is to move a vote of no-confidence based on a number of critical issues.
5th Column
  Waiting for the right moment to strike
  By Rypvanwinkle
 

"Hello, Hello, Satellite," said the Green Man as he visited the lady at her home "I was wondering when you would call..."
"You know me," Satellite said, "I'm always late..."

Situation Report
  Not issued with this week issue
  By Iqbal Athas
 
The Economic Analysis
  It’s growing, but can it be sustained?
  By the Economist
 
The Central Bank has forecast a continued economic growth of 7 percent for this year. Although the growth rates for the first two quarters of the year are still not available, many statistics of economic performance in the first six months that are available indicate growth in several key areas.
Thoughts from London
  On the flight path to diplomatic lunacy
  By Neville de Silva
 

It is comforting when one's views on matters of people and politics get a nod from readers. It is even more gratifying when such endorsement comes from persons not only knowledgeable in areas of our concern but have also been, in a manner of speaking, in the frontline as policies were made and played out on the international stage.

Issue of the week
  Not issued with this week issue
  By Ameen Izzadeen
   
Focus on Rights
  Catching the sprats again
  By Kishali Pinto Jayawardena
 

This week's press notification that the Bribery and Corruption Commission had been successful in its prosecution of a police sergeant who had solicited and accepted a bribe of Rs 6,000 from a bootlegger in exchange for promising not to haul him up before the law, awakens no particular joy in our hearts.

Lobby
  Not issued with this week issue
  By Chandani Kirinde, Our Lobby Correspondent
   
Inside the glass house
  Damning billions going down Iraqi rat holes
  By Thalif Deen at the united nations
 
NEW YORK - When Jesse Helms, the rigidly conservative rightwing Republican Senator from North Carolina, criticised US aid to developing nations, he famously said that American tax payer money should not be "going down foreign rat holes to countries that constantly oppose us at the United Nations."
Telescope
  Not issued with this week issue
  By J.S. Tissainayagam
   
 
 
 
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