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On policy, the President recommitted himself to health care reform, though he did not lay out a strategy for passage. He gave glancing mentions to both repealing the ban on gays in the military and confronting immigration reform but offered no clear hope for resolving those issues. He was fiercely...
President Mahinda Rajapaksa - Sri Lanka's self-described "rebel with a cause" - extended his four decades in politics with a landslide victory on Jan. 27 in the country's first election since the end of its 26-year civil war. Upending predictions that the contest would be a close fight...
• Became Labor Minister under President Chandrika Kumaratunga, and later the Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources.
• Was endorsed by Kumaratunga as her successor; in November 2005 he was elected the fifth President of Sri Lanka.
"I am the President of the those who voted for me and those who did not." - Reacting to the announcement of the election results on Jan. 27 (TIME, Jan. 27, 2010)