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...make a decision whether I am to continue in the office of President until 2006 or not." Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan President, disclosing that she took a second, secret oath of office in 2000 and therefore may extend her six-year term as President...
...third encounter with Sri Lankan pachyderms in less than a week, and though we escaped by crazily zigzagging in reverse, this one was rather close for comfort. "You're very fortunate," said Premaratna, our septuagenarian guide. "I've never seen so many herds assembled at one time." He estimated that there were about 1,000 elephants graying the grassy expanse that is the Minneriya-Giritale Sanctuary?about a third of the country's wild-elephant population...
...parents called me that night,” said Kamilka Malwatte ’07, the other Sri Lankan international student at the College. “For all of us, we’ve kind of grown up with it. And I know it really shocks people when I tell people that we had drills on what to do in case of suicide bombings,” she added, “but it didn’t feel shocking...
...Like smashing the pot when the milk in it is churning into butter, the Sri Lankan President has sabotaged the peace process at a crucial time." V. Karuna, a top Tamil Tiger military commander, on the President's decision last week to suspend Parliament and declare martial...
...Thoreau even translated a portion of a Buddhist text from the French version. A more concrete academic interest in Buddhism was developed by William James. After the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, at which the lectures of two Buddhist speakers were extremely popular, James invited a Sri Lankan speaker from the exposition to come address his psychology class. James introduced his guest lecturer as “a man who represent[ed] the psychology of the future,” Queen says. American academics were already expressing a scientific interest in Buddhism with regard to its psychological theories...