Obama, straight down the middle
Political combat sometimes stresses personal
antagonisms and obsessive antipathies too much. The need for an
all-out attack on an opponent makes for diverse alliances motivated
solely by the desire to destroy the common enemy. But once that
enemy has been brought down, the problems begin. What next? To make
political decisions, the grey areas which in Opposition had made an
alliance possible have to be dispelled, and that brings
disenchantment. Before you know it, the hated adversary is back in
power, made no more appealing by his time in Opposition.
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Let us celebrate our moment of ‘relevance’
There comes a moment, every few years, when the
ordinary citizen is suddenly conferred with a kind of importance
that is quite in contrast to the way in which he/she is treated or
imagined at other times. The ballot is a small thing and casting a
vote is such fleeting moment and the movement from relevant to
irrelevant is quite a blur. It makes me wonder what the fuss is all
about.
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Sustainable development for effectively
influencing resource management:
Ten years after Seattle
Ten years ago in November 1999, an event
unprecedented in recent US history took place, abortion of a
much-publicized meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Seattle,
Washington, USA, on account of massive public protests. On that
occasion my own contribution was on the imminent destruction of the
Kalaweva Jayaganga water and soil conservation ecosystem, by a
proposal to mine the non-renewable Eppawala phosphate rock deposit
to exhaustion by a joint proposal of an US and a Japanese
multinational corporation.
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Tribute - Dr P.R. Anthonis
It is difficult for the modern doctor to
understand the ability and skills and achievements of medical
practitioners of the era of Dr Anthonis. He passed out as a doctor
in 1936 when the pharmacopoeia consisted of lotions, powders and
mixtures. Antibiotics were unknown (Penicillin was discovered two
years after he went to UK to train as a surgeon). Intravenous,
anaesthesia was discovered only just (Chloroform was discovered in
1864).
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Mullaitivu booms with rapid development
Sri Lanka is on the threshold of a new
beginning. The ruthless terrorism that hindered the country’ s
development for almost three decades has been eradicated completely
from its soil and the country is in the process of a renaissance.
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