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Former Minister Lalith Athulathmudali's 70th
birth anniversary falls tomorrow:
Memorable anecdotes
A British MP, Cyril Smith, MBE - famous for his
sense of humour - related the following story in an after dinner
speech. "Mrs. Thatcher passed on and knocked on the Gates of Heaven
but St. Peter, after asking for her name, sends her down below. Some
four days later, there is a knock on the Gates of Heaven. St. Peter
goes and finds the devil standing there.
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Koch and 'Bull' memorial orations of the physiological society
of Sri Lanka
For the 19th unbroken year, the Physiological
Society of Sri Lanka formally commemorates the memory of the two
founding Sri Lankan giants of the discipline of Physiology in this
country.
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Ajith was a true journalist
MEMORIES of the wonderful days Ajit Samaranayake
spent at The Island and Sunday Island in the early eighties flood my
memory while my eyes are still wet remembering one of the most
versatile writers of our times.
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A skilled journalist and a great humanist
When great Russian writer Gogol died at the age
of 43 a contemporary writer Ivan Turgeniv wrote thus: 'Gogol is
dead, we have got the bitter and sorrowful right to describe him as
a great man. As ancient pioneers died without completing their
mission he too died at a time his strengths and abilities were being
realised."
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