Finance aristocracy pushed trans-Atlantic
Anglo-American finance institutions find
themselves forced to cough up large and still larger pay for their
hit men. Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer argues, “our aim
should not be to prevent rewards where they are deserved, for
long-term success or hard work.” Today’s rules of unregulated
markets allow executives to go out and become financial raiders in
their own right - when they would compete with their previous
financial home. This market headache comes at a time when France and
Germany at EU Summits ask for a ceiling on the incomes of executives
of financial institutions.
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The Morning Inspection
On PS (Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu) and his BS
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu (PS) is wondering if
the Rajapaksa regime is caught in what he calls ‘The Missing Enemy
Syndrome’ published in an article in a daily newspaper. He offers
that in an LTTE-less Sri Lanka, the regime misses an enemy (implying
that the regime needs an enemy) and therefore is doing its best to
conjure one. PS is basically saying ‘there is no enemy’.
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Pro-LTTE and anti-Sri Lanka lobby:
It is time you take a 360° turn
With the exhaustion of the popular pet
controversial topics regarding Sri Lanka, now the favourite topic of
the international and national community used to flame the anti-Sri
Lanka feeling throughout the world is the letters IDP. These three
letters have become a gold mine for the said communities as well as
for NGOs and their local acolytes. Thus the common and favourite
slogan is ‘Resettle IDPs soon’.
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Dr. C. W. W. Kannangara, visionary mentor of free education
Tribute to a man in a million:
I was enticed by my innerself and my conscience
to write this article in the form of a further appreciative addendum
rejoinder to the narration on Dr. C.W.W. Kannangara, Statesman,
Patriot and the Father of free education by W.T.A. Leslie Fernando,
which appeared in The Daily News on Tuesday. That article quite
superlatively chronicled the march of events that led to the birth
of free education in this country.
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