By Shelton A. Gunaratne©2009 [The writer is professor of mass communications emeritus, Minnesota State University Moorhead]
China, the emerging superpower, has achieved its success through the pragmatic application of its three-pronged cultural inheritance based on a hybrid of Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist principles. Pragmatism, defined so elegantly by the illustrious Deng Xiaoping—“It does not matter whether [...]

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Mario Perera, Kadawata
A thought to ponder; Hannibal’s victory which was considered the model of warfare in Germany. From a letter from my French friends Pierre and Suzanne (with my english translation below).
 Le carthaginois Hannibal, qui fut un très valeureux chef, combattit à Cannes, c’était 2 siècles avant Christ, et par une organisation de ses troupes [...]

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by Gomin Dayasri Courtesy Daily Mirror, SL 11.06.2009 -
The Oslo Declaration was greeted by the UNP as a major triumph in their negotiating process while the critics argued against it as a stepping stone to a separate state.
It is worth while harking back to the approved text of the Royal Norwegian government outlining the basic [...]

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Ananda De Costa
The Tamil Tiger leader in London was sentenced to jail, just for two years. David Hicks a man who did not commit even one sixteenth of the crime compared to this terrorist was in Guantánamo bay concentration camp (or the land without law) for six years without trial. This is the difference between [...]

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