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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Global Scrutiny
Iraq's divisions could widen in wake of Saddam execution
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