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President Rajapaksa:
A multi-faceted personality
The philosopher Carlyle in his treatise on hero
worship has exploded the myth that heroes are born fully equipped to
fill a slot in a social set up. The heroic element, he says is
latent in humans, but only a minuscule number of them take the
trouble to draw on it.
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Five young men in jail for fighting terrorism
This is the story of five young men - Gerardo,
Ramon, Rene, Fernando and Antonio, all of them Cuban who are
languishing in jail in the United States for fighting the terrorist
mafia in Miami, Florida.
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Creating a crisis to resolve
I have just been at a course on the Law of
Internal Displacement organized by the International Institute of
Humanitarian Law, along with the Brookings Institute, which is the
leading think tank in the field. Together with Walter Kalin, the
Special Representative on the rights of the Displaced of the UN
Secretary General, it produced the Guiding Principles on the
subject, a manual that is now widely accepted as definitive.
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A new MP from the South
A new Member of Parliament Chandima Weerakkody
took oaths on June 9, 2009 from the district of Galle. He is no
stranger to the people of South but some people might not know him
for the very simple reason that he never cared to boost his image
during campaigning. He is a prime example of “sincere dedication to
public service”.
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