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/ 20 October 2003
The Pentagon was accused yesterday of ignoring a report that predicted Iraq would descend into chaos after the toppling of Saddam Hussein. Details of the document, compiled by the US state department, emerged in the New York Times and raised difficult questions for the Bush administration about its handling of post-war Iraq.
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/ 20 October 2003
Deputy President Jacob Zuma opened a World Road Congress in Durban on Sunday with a reminder to delegates of the some 100 member countries in attendance that transport infrastructures were critical to the continent’s development.
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/ 20 October 2003
China’s president, Hu Jintao, yesterday rejected a personal appeal from his American counterpart, George Bush, to revalue his country’s currency and adjust other policies that Washington claims give China an unfair trading advantage.
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/ 20 October 2003
The introduction of strict new laws for better capital management and reduced exposure to risk as embodied in the Basel II Capital Accord presents financial institutions with something of a double-edged sword. While compliance will reduce operational hazards, it may also result in over-stressed systems and excessive pressure on financial technology systems.
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/ 20 October 2003
It was America’s ”virtuous majority” (as they conceive themselves) who made George Bush president. He keeps these core voters sweet by appointing aggressively virtuous subordinates — men whose sole claim to office, as Bill Maher puts it, is that they ”read the Bible and fuck their wives”.
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/ 20 October 2003
The icy cold weather gripping the country’s northern provinces is expected to last at least until Tuesday. At the same time, conditions which could lead to the development and spread of runaway veld fires were expected over the Cape Peninsula, the SAWS said.
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/ 20 October 2003
The Democratic Alliance commended SA Human Rights Commission chairperson Jody Kollapen on Sunday for lodging an equality case against a Pretoria barbershop that refused him a hair-cut on account of its ”whites-only” policy. Kollapen visited the Centurion shop and was refused a haircut on account of his race.
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/ 20 October 2003
Zimbabwe’s state fuel company has run dry, paralysing virtually all government departments and stopping many trains, buses and cars across the country. The government responded to the latest twist in the long-running fuel crisis by blaming the British government.
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/ 20 October 2003
The keenly awaited Mazda RX-8 put in an appearance at the recent Durban Motor Show. If it goes as well as it looks sports car lovers shouldn’t find themselves disappointed, and there’s no reason to believe that it won’t.
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/ 20 October 2003
The family of a British peace activist shot in the head by an Israeli soldier is considering applying to the courts for permission to turn off his life support machine. Doctors in Britain have told Tom Hurndall’s family that he does not feel a thing.