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		<title>Contrasting performances in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 04:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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by Dayan Jayatilleka

&#34;&#8230;as long as they accept, as we have previously said, our condition of being a country that will not tolerate shadows over its independence, and based on the principles of equality, reciprocity, non-intervention and mutual respect.&#34;- Raul Castro (Dec 2, 2006)  


Most Sri Lankans would be greatly relieved that war veteran, Defence Secretary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsweek.wordpress.com&blog=232107&post=146&subd=newsweek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The much maligned ex-President</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ranjith Wijewardene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Aravinda Gautamadasa
Much is said in the printed media on the alleged deeds and misdeeds (more of the latter) on Sri Lanka’s ex-president Mrs. Chandrika Bandaranaike. After all the media takes pride in exposing the misdeeds rather than the deeds. Under these circumstances they have formed the line ‘the evil that men do live after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsweek.wordpress.com&blog=232107&post=145&subd=newsweek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A journalist and gentleman</title>
		<link>http://newsweek.wordpress.com/2006/11/23/a-journalist-and-gentleman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 02:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ranjith Wijewardene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ajith is no more! The icy cold hand of death has cruelly removed from our midst a brilliant journalist and wonderful friend. We are at a loss for words to describe how diminished we are. Our sorrow knows no bounds.

Ajith (Samaranayake) began his brilliant career way back in 1975 at Lake House as a young [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsweek.wordpress.com&blog=232107&post=144&subd=newsweek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doom and gloom</title>
		<link>http://newsweek.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/doom-and-gloom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ranjith Wijewardene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is all doom and gloom that surround us, the exhilarating &#8216;Deya Kirula&#8217; ceremony at Weerawila on Sunday notwithstanding. Killings and armed clashes are going on unabated while floods and landslides ravage around the country rendering thousands of people homeless and destitute. President Mahinda Rajapaksa&#8217;s speech at the Weerawila ceremony that he had strictly adhered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsweek.wordpress.com&blog=232107&post=143&subd=newsweek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When singing becomes a crime</title>
		<link>http://newsweek.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/when-singing-becomes-a-crime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ranjith Wijewardene</dc:creator>
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&#34;God sent his Singers upon earth
With songs of sadness and of mirth,
That they might touch the hearts of men,
And bring them back to heaven again.&#34;
— H. W. Longfellow

Many a person has blown a gasket over the appointment of popular singer Karunaratne Divulgane as the North Central Province Governor. They demand to know whether President Mahinda [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsweek.wordpress.com&blog=232107&post=142&subd=newsweek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Attack on Karu arouses hornet&#8217;s nest in UNP</title>
		<link>http://newsweek.wordpress.com/2006/11/04/attack-on-karu-arouses-hornets-nest-in-unp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ranjith Wijewardene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Jayawardhana
Los Angeles:-The condemnation of the United national Party(UNP) deputy leader Karu Jayasuriya by a protégé of party leader Ranil Wickramasinghe for criticizing the party leader has turned into a hornet’s nest when other party members started lashing out at the despotic nature of the party leadership, repeating Jayasuriya more severely.

Vajira Abeywardena, the Wickremesinghe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsweek.wordpress.com&blog=232107&post=141&subd=newsweek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>De-merger of NE unconstitutional -S. P. Thamilselvan</title>
		<link>http://newsweek.wordpress.com/2006/10/31/de-merger-of-ne-unconstitutional-s-p-thamilselvan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LTTE Political Wing Leader S. P. Thamilselvan in his opening address in Geneva on Saturday declared that the recent Supreme Court declaration that the merger of the Eastern Province with the Northern Province under the Indo-Lanka Accord of July 29 1987 was invalid, null and void is unconstitutional. He accused the judiciary of facilitating the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsweek.wordpress.com&blog=232107&post=140&subd=newsweek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guns to the left, guns to the right</title>
		<link>http://newsweek.wordpress.com/2006/09/30/guns-to-the-left-guns-to-the-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ranjith Wijewardene</dc:creator>
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Army Commander Lt. General Sarath Fonseka inspects LTTE weapons and explosives captured by  troops during his inspection tour in Jaffna yesterday.
Tribute to Sri Lankan Armed Forces
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		<title>Rao no Dixit, but let this be said!</title>
		<link>http://newsweek.wordpress.com/2006/09/11/rao-no-dixit-but-let-this-be-said/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Surjan Singh Khalsa Pau, Ludhiana, India
Please allow me to educate Nirupama Rao and Indians living in Sri Lanka on some issues that have most educated Sri Lankans throwing their hands up in despair and anger these days. Anura Bandaranaike was correct in many ways despite the undiplomatic language he used. I don’t usually defend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsweek.wordpress.com&blog=232107&post=138&subd=newsweek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘UN Secretary-General must be the consensus builder and harmoniser in the UN membership’</title>
		<link>http://newsweek.wordpress.com/2006/09/05/%e2%80%98un-secretary-general-must-be-the-consensus-builder-and-harmoniser-in-the-un-membership%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“UNSGslection.org is the website of a campaign organized by a group of Non-governmental organisations calling for a more democratic, transparent and effective selection process that will ensure the appointment of the most qualified candidates as the next Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Among the NGOs are Amnesty International, Third World Network, Equality Now and the World [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsweek.wordpress.com&blog=232107&post=137&subd=newsweek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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