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After the fight was over, Premadasa was asked what else he would like to do. Would he like to take in some night life, see the lap dancers perform may be? Premadasa said "you could proceed if you want to and see any gyrating behind, but as far as I'm concerned this is the time I go to sleep." And he did that. This was related while were on the subject of the lifestyles of certain top-flight folks - Ministers included - who go abroad in these times. Ranil's timing
Shades of this was seen at a Royal Thomian past when he mentioned to a staunch old Thomian - the school by the sea may be gone. He referred to the tsunami say some - others say the reference was to the highway that was threatening to bisect the schoolyard. While he was on the subject, it was his old school Royal College which was in fact getting the hammering of a decade - losing so badly that any talk of the of obliteration of S. Thomas' College seemed to belong only in somebody's fervid imagination. Our answer to Murdoch
We have a few threatening to be, in Colombo's calmer business environs. There is a man whose bid to buy a prime Colombo real estate, a hotel, was thwarted only because his broker let him down. You could say that the property is now sold - and functioning on an even keel. But our mogul is not deterred. He has an offshore style; and his Murdoch kind of approach has had many in the higher echelon of the political game pricking their ears. That may sound cryptic, but it's all we are telling. Hung-over? No
Bt this is in good spirit. We are not hung-over about the colonials, it's a matter of getting the guvner's family down when we are celebrating an epochal event involving what was - after all - the guvner's residence. Prins does it
But it isn't as bad as it was when Prins Gunasekera stated in Parliament - "while very minister is at the Royal Thomian cricket match, there is nobody to talk about the rising price of bread." Prins Gunasekera at least is not in the country anymore to prick the conscience of the overgrown schoolboys. Dead wrong Mr. Rajitha Sennaratne who was on the way to pay respects to a lawyer who had passed onto the great beyond, nevertheless stood in the pouring rain at somebody else's funeral. This was heard by way of comment: "this is an opposition getting used to losing its way." We are not saying that - this just a quote.
Closed ?
Put up shutters? By way of agitation, by way of prodding for professional transparency?? But those who say this are forced to have a double take when asked? Were the shutters really up the last year or two or three that were behind us? |
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When
President Premadasa travelled to Los Angeles once before he became the
President - he was asked what he would like to see. He said he wanted to see
Mohamed Ali fight. 
Anything
that's said about the Royal Thomian cricket match - just concluded - has to
be frivolous, but in this spirit there is something that can be said about
the Janus faced character of Mr. Wickremesighe who has been plagued by
ill-luck, the man, even though at times appears as if he is on top of the
world. 
Moguls
of the Murdoch persuasion? 
An
ex British governor's family will be at hand for the celebration involving
the centennial of a prime location south of Colombo. 
While
on that subject of the Big Match - it has to be said that the elite
obsession with this annual event is still not extinguished. 
In
legal circles there is a refrain that goes this way: "We have closed shop
for another two years." 
