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President Mahinda Rajapakse
The election of Mahinda Rajapakse as Sri Lanka's seventh President heralds a new chapter in the country's troubled history. The paradoxical factors behind his hard-worked victory offer a hint about how the plot may unfold. This was the closest ...

Intolerance that is intolerable
The harassment and unseemly protests against opinions expressed by actor Kushboo and by Suhasini Maniratnam who expressed solidarity with her demonstrate a disquieting tendency to shut out free speech that no democratic society can countenance. ...

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A U.S.-Japan equation to counter China
By P. S. Suryanarayana

The move by the U.S. and Japan to strike a "joint-operations posture" is a qualitatively new feature of the East Asian security landscape. For China and others, this is an emerging reality to reckon with.

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Not in front of the children
By Mark Lawson

THAT POPULAR politeness, "not in front of the children" — employed to protect offspring from knowledge of family deaths and divorces — can now be applied to children's entertainment. Superficially, this week in the United Kingdom ...

"Freedom lifeblood of digital revolution"
By Anand Parthasarathy

The Tunis summit of the Information Society has put the bigger users and developed nations on alert that the Net is not anyone's personal property.

Iraq dogs Bush as he crosses Asia
By David E. Sanger

The U.S. President and his aides are busy trying to justify the war on Iraq.

Washington riveted by Woodward role
By Douglas Jehl and David Johnston

More than a half-dozen Bush administration officials have sent word that they had not been Bob Woodward's source.

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