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...when Rajaratnam's name again cropped up, this time as a potential donor for a $23 million project aimed at rehabilitating former Tiger combatants. Rajaratnam had agreed to donate $1 million for the government project, funded by the governments of Japan and the U.S. and local business giants like Aitken Spence, Brandix, Ceylon Tobacco, Dilmah, Hayleys, John Keells, MAS Holdings and Unilever. "We initiated the program and the formal agreements were signed in September," Sarath Godakanda, an official at the Ministry of Justice and Law Reforms, told TIME. It was not clear whether the funds pledged by Rajaratnam had already...
Like Borré, the Friends of St. Stan are ready for a long fight. "We are prepared to do what it takes," says David Aitken, 54, who used to ring the church bells. For the moment, at least, the diocese is treating its errant flock with patience. "Suffering the closing of your parish is like watching a parent die," says Monsignor Bonzagni. "If the parishioners at St. Stan's need to mourn this way, we will do nothing to interfere...
...returning last week as team boss of Newcastle United, the English Premier League football club whose St. James' Park stadium stands atop this city, Kevin Keegan is moonlighting as Newcastle's spiritual leader. Hardworking and proud of their roots, his congregation are "Geordie first and English second," says Brian Aitken, editor of local paper The Journal. And as a blend of "the three F's," he says - that's fun, family and football - for most of those Geordies "football would come first...
...games that month, Northern Rock - caught short of cash when global credit markets froze last summer - was losing billions of dollars as punters desperately pulled their deposits. With the club and its backer in free fall in recent months, "the northeast has been feeling pretty battered and bruised," says Aitken...
Ultimatley, Aitken advises Harvard students to “bring every critical faculty you have in yourself to bear on it. This is what a liberal arts education is about—increasing your ability to stand free of exploitation, to make decisions outside of influence. This is an opportunity to be a free person and to make your own decision about the movie...