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On the Jeanne Thwaites Formula of getting clean candidates
 Ranil Wickremesinghe looks like an unfit, unskilled, reserve goalie in an under 13 soccer team facing up to a penalty kick by Ronaldo. He can’t save a goal even if his life depended on it. He’s let so many slip through his legs over the past 6 years that it is a wonder he’s still out there in the field. He should have retired or been retired a long time ago. But then again, as Team Manager, Team Owner, Team Captain and Team Coach he can pick himself and play any position I suppose. In the end though, it’s his supporters that get played.
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The destruction of Wilpattu National Park
 The nation has now been purged of the terrorism which affected it for thirty years. The way is clear for resuming development, democracy and normalcy in civilian life. The present situation provides a rare opportunity for prosperity through correct planning and implementation of such plans. It is in this way that the freedom won by the great final phase of the war can become a reality.
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Vital rule of forest in climate change
 A special session on climate change was held in United Nations Headquarters in New Yorkin 2008. Representing Sri Lanka, I officiated the meeting which was attended by many world leaders and leading environmentalists. At the inauguration ceremony, Mr. Bloomberg the Mayor of New York, welcoming all the delegates to New York, “The Global Capital”, announced that he would plant one million trees in his city to combat Global Warming. When a colleague inquired as to why I looked so amused by the announcement of the Mayor, I said, no wonder Mr. Bloomberg looked at things with his USA centric world view point and as a result would make such announcements as he fights shy of looking at global economic super power China and its commercial capital Shanghai, I had to tell my colleague if not for what China had lend the USA, economically there would have been a Chiamerica instead of the USA.
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Award winning award
 FOREWORD There are numerous Industries & Service providers in the world which are spread in the every nook & corner of the planet. They provide us with various kinds of things which changes our lives for better or for worse. Every human being has to enter as an employee for one of those industries, be it large or small. Some will emerge from the rest with the talent & ability work in that necessary field & go way beyond passing others. Those emerging talent will always be rewarded.
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Nuclear Energy - Is it Really Viable?
 When I was reading “Albert Eisenstein” written by Banesh Hopman, the chapter which excited me most was the one which had described details of the invention and the experimentation of the first nuclear weapon. It was the Italian physicist - Enrico Fermi who was first able to split the nucleus of an atom.
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A questionnaire of sorts to Ms. Butenis
 The US Embassy is livid. They are pissed off their minds because, ‘various state media outlets’ had alleged that the United States of Americahad supported a candidate at the recently held Presidential Election. The US Embassy in Colombo in a special media statement has categorically denied any such involvement and had chided these ‘media outlets’ for making baseless charges without giving Patricia Butenis a chance to comment on what the Embassy calls ‘spurious claims’.
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Sri Lanka: Why the crisis continues
The Sri Lankan crisis continues, sourced in and stemming from two major flaws/factors: (i) There is no comprehension that “justice must not only be done, but be seen to be done” and that what is legal in the narrowest sense may not be perceived as legitimate or ethical in the broader sense. The consequences for institutions, the long term health of the body politic and the larger national ethos are never considered.
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Memories of Miguel
The call from Cuba came this morning, Tamara excusing herself for the early hour to say she had very bad news and I thought Fidel was gone, but no, it was Miguel – my long link, as it were, to him, our father who art in Havana. Dr. Miguel Alfonso Martinez, Professor Emeritus, jurist, pedagogue and ex-diplomat, my pony-tailed companero in his seventies, had died some hours ago and had already been cremated. The email from Juan Antonio, former Cuban perm rep in Geneva and brother-in- arms, now head of that country’s UNESCO Commission, came minutes later. Sanja was shedding silent tears. A few feet away, in our bedroom at that moment was one of Miguel’s gifts, a CD he had his son record, “El Guayabero” by pianist/composer Faustino Oramas. There were always thoughtfully chosen gifts from Miguel on his visits to Geneva, reproductions of paintings by Cuban artists, music CDs, books. Miguel, a friend of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan mission to the UN in Geneva for years had been introduced to me over lunch by my predecessor Sarala Fernando, but he was (always) impeccably informed and standing next to ambassador Juan Antonio, murmured that “in Havana we have already heard of the Sri Lankan ambassador-designate who has declared ‘don’t ever expect me to abstain on the issue of Cuba’ “.
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Independence eve thoughts & the imminent election
Sri Lanka celebrates Independence Day this year with the State in a better state than it has been for three decades. The country is a single united territory; unquestionably a single political entity. The borders of the state are coextensive with our natural borders, the sea. The writ of the state runs from North to South, East to West. The state’s monopoly of organized violence has been restored. The travesty of an armed proto-state within the state has been excised. A Thirty Years war has been won and a hideous, powerful challenger, accurately described by The Economist (Jan 28, 2010) as “a textbook fascist”, put down. National independence and sovereignty have asserted themselves against attempts at interference and intervention. Electoral democracy survived both terrorism and the war against it.
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The importance of being politically earnest
 The election heat has almost cooled off and judging by the famously goldfish memory spanned Sri Lankan polity, by now everyone should be right back to their lotus eating life as usual, and even as we speak, the anticipation and excitement of Presidential Elections are by now probably almost relegated to post modern history. However, in light of the General Election on its way in April, it would be prudent to record some of our observations on the Prez Race 2010.
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