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Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there
- Virginia Burden

 

Mihintale: monastic complex of two thousand monks

The Sinhala term Mihintale is derived from Pali Mahindathala, the place of Thera Mahinda. It is well known that the first meeting of Thera Mahinda with King Devanampiya Tissa took place at Mihintale on Poson Full Moon Poya day. This meeting is described in chronicles and Buddhist literature overlaid with legends and miraculous events.

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Death of a superpower

Announcing the impending visit to New Delhi of the American Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta, the Pentagon stressed that 'the US-India relationship is a priority for the United States government', one of the 'defining partnerships of the 21st century'.

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The Dons and the undergrads: reminiscences of the 70s

Perhaps for the first time in Sri Lanka’s system of education, university teachers are being felicitated by their former students in a public ceremony. The event will be held today (May 26) at 11.00 a.m. at the Arts Theatre of the Peradeniya University. It is being organized by the Peradeniya Alumni (1972 Arts) Association, to mark the Association’s 40th anniversary.

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Harold Pieris, Editor, Observer, 1977 to 1989:

The last gentleman

Harold Pieris was as solid as the pillars of Lake House. Although big-made and bulky. Harry's strength was that of a gentle giant. His presence was a comforting one, for, although he worked behind the scenes, the skill he displayed in every field of journalism and newspaper administration made him,

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