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/ 28 October 2003
Howard Dean may or may not emerge as the Democrats’ choice to face off against Bush next year, but he already has had a huge impact on the way US political campaigns are financed and run. But Dean has rocketed past his Democratic competitors in fundraising by collecting millions of dollars in small donations.
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/ 28 October 2003
Miss Afghanistan may have hit headlines for parading in a bikini in the name of a conservative Muslim country where most women wear head-to-toe burqas. But in her homeland few even know what the title means, and even fewer have seen the pictures.
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/ 28 October 2003
Real Madrid will go back to the top of the Spanish first division, at least for 24 hours, if they can win at Real Zaragoza on Tuesday though they will be without David Beckham, who missed Real’s scrappy 3-1 win over Racing Santander on Saturday because of a strained right hamstring.
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/ 28 October 2003
If it’s hard to come up with a viable sequel to a movie that hit box-office gold, it ought to be nigh on impossible to better a website that revolutionised the way people approached music. That, however, is the intention of a US firm that is bringing back Napster, the ground-breaking site which made file-sharing a household concept and terrified the music industry.
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/ 28 October 2003
Britain is privately bracing itself for the stalled Doha trade liberalisation talks to miss their 2005 deadline by at least two years and fears the talks may have been totally derailed by the collapse of negotiations in Cancun last month. A confidential post-mortem examination is being prepared by the UK Department of Trade and Industry.
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/ 28 October 2003
South Africa striker Shaun Bartlett is quitting international football to concentrate on securing a new contract with his club, Premiership side Charlton. He has opted to bow out from the international stage rather than risk yet another club-versus-country row ahead of next year’s African Nations Cup.
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/ 28 October 2003
Two-time World Cup quarterfinalists Samoa will give it their best shot against South Africa on Saturday, coach John Boe said on Tuesday, but it will take a mighty effort to beat them. ”This is the game of their lives [the Samoan players] and it represents a great challenge,” he said.
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/ 28 October 2003
Pakistan middle-order batsmen Shoaib Malik and Moin Khan hung on to secure a thrilling draw on Tuesday in the second Test against South Africa, clinching the two-Test series 1-0. Needing 302 after a bold declaration by visiting skipper Graeme Smith late on Monday, Pakistan ended at 242 for six.
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/ 28 October 2003
Uruguay denied Georgia a first-ever World Cup win with a hard-fought 24-12 victory in Pool C’s battle of the no-hopers in Sydney on Tuesday. The win condemned Georgia to the bottom of the group, but the cash-strapped players from the former Soviet Union left to a rousing ovation.
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/ 27 October 2003
National Development Agency (NDA) CEO Delani Mthembu has been suspended from his position pending an investigation into allegations of mismanagement and corruption, Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya announced on Monday. The suspension followed a preliminary forensic audit of the NDA.