Seven Wonders of the World, 2,000 years later
July 7 will change the world. It is the day that
people around the world will know what the new Seven Wonders of the
World are. And it will be their choice. From India's Taj Mahal to
Mexico's Mayan ruins, suggestions for seven new Wonders of the World
have flooded in from more than 70 million people in one of the
biggest global polls ever conducted.
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Mervyn de Silva's eighth death anniversary falls
today:
Witty, sophisticated and thought-provoking
Mervyn was a breath of fresh air, for his
concern for accuracy and for balance, even while he made no secret
of his own political predilections. He was also uniquely able, given
his wide reading and relentlessly inquiring mind, to understand the
background to what was going on, which is why, when all others
ignored the dangers, he well understood the chaos in which
Jayewardene's preposterous foreign adventurism was plunging us.
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Tigers face dead end in dense jungles of Thoppigala
LTTE unable to salvage pride as Navy routs Sea
Tigers:
Defence column by Ranil Wijayapala
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