2006 - The year of an inconvenient truth?

THE year 2006 started on a Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and was the Year of the Dog in the Chinese calendar. From an international perspective, 2006 was undoubtedly dedicated to environmental protection, having been designated the International Year for Deserts and Desertification by the United Nations.

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Hilary B. Abeyratne: 'No patient of English'

Former Vice Principal of Trinity College Kandy - up to 1975:

HB evolved, to be an outstanding and versatile educator. He was a disciplinarian with a bent for contained liberalism. HB was a workaholic who enjoyed his work and got others involved, injecting them with enthusiastic work holism. He was cognizant of the limitations of the private schools' role, in terms of resources and the socio political culture of the environment.

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