Uprising in Tunisia
Threatens dictators elsewhere:
Twenty-nine days of spontaneous nationwide
uprising, which killed 66 people up to last Saturday and forced the
corrupt and oppressive dictator Zine El Abdeen Ben Ali to flee the
country on Friday January 14, is threatening dictators in the Middle
East who fear that they would be next.
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Reflections on reputation and other such burdens
The Morning Inspection - Malinda
Errol Alphonso, my friend and benefactor, is an
indefatigable miner of the Internet, meticulous separator of grain
from chaff therein and a generous disseminator of information he
believes is useful to receiver. He has subscribed to a
quote-yielding website. He picks and chooses what to send and
therefore whatever he stuffs into my inbox is of great value to me.
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Camel and Ostrich farming in Sri Lanka
The Deputy Minister of Livestock H R Mithrapala
is interested in importing camels and ostriches to farm here for
their milk and eggs respectively, mainly in order to diversify the
diet of Sri Lankans, particularly the Muslims.
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