Can Pakistan live with a U.N. Chief from India?
India's formal announcement of its candidate for
the next U.N. secretary-general has threatened to trigger a
nomination from neighbouring Pakistan possibly turning the race into
an all-too-familiar Indo-Pakistan political battle in the world
body.
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Lords critical of LTTE's inhuman behaviour
What happened last year is a good example of the
matters being dealt with exactly as they should be. The Tamil
Rehabilitation Organisation, a charity, was closed down as a result
of the police and the Charity Commission acting on evidence that
funds were being channelled to LTTE.
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Dudley Senanayake: Gentleman-politician and gentle leader
Dudley Senanayake's ninety-fifth birth
anniversary fell on June 19. I first met him in 1967 when he was
serving as Prime Minister. I was then a university student and went
to meet him as part of a group of student representatives from the
United National Party Student organization.
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Panic Nation - Chapter 2: The misuse of numbers - Part 3
Continued from 21.6.2006
Many of the scare stories that appear in the
media start with an epidemiological study. These compare the rate,
occurrence or coincidence of two events. Some of these studies are
very good, with great care being taken to prevent bias and to limit
the effect of outside factors.
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