Statesman, orator and humanitarian

Today is the one hundred and eleventh birth anniversary of one of the greatest sons of Mother Sri Lanka, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, statesman, orator, scholarly analyst of politics and governance and a humanitarian who enunciated the middle path policy.

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The Morning Inspection

If you want perspective and proportion, go to Abhayagiriya

Elections are hard on nails, especially for those who are given to nervous nibbling. It doesn’t matter how far ahead one is in opinion polls or how far behind, it doesn’t matter if one is assured of winning or doesn’t have a hope in hell. Human beings are strange creatures in that their bodies are made up of both a pessimist and an optimist. Don’t ask me how these entities share a common space. It can’t be fun, that much can be said.

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A little bit of Wall Street reform

Four hundred forty-two days after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, the US House of Representatives has finally passed financial reform legislation.

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