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/ 5 January 2001

Cleva and classy

Michael Odell CD OFTHEWEEK You’ll have noticed that writing poetry in coffee shops, plundering jumble-sale threads and being love-battered yet plucky is now “in”. But just four years ago, if you were a female R&B act, you wore knee-high leather boots and demanded regular oral sex and housekeeping from your “nigga”, safe in the knowledge […]

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/ 5 January 2001

‘Bitches’ attack sexy adverts

Jon Henley in Paris As controversy rages in Britain and South Africa over the Steven Maisels’s sexy Sophie Dahl advertisement for Opium perfume, French feminists are turning up the heat in their war on a national ad industry that has long considered bare breasts an appropriate way to advertise anything from lawnmowers to low-fat margarine. […]

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/ 5 January 2001

Here?s your medicine – and pass the gravy

MEDICAL aid schemes have threatened to delete drugs from the lists of medicines they will cover for members unless pharmaceutical companies pay them substantial kickbacks, according to a report in The Star newspaper. Doctors will also be encouraged to get in on the act, with financial rewards for those who prescribe the drugs on the […]