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/ 21 September 2004
The most important political talks in the recent history of Northern Ireland, which began on Thursday last week, appear to hang on the uncertain health of the 78-year-old Ian Paisley. Paisley, the undisputed leader of unionism, resolved to make the 640km journey to Leeds Castle in Kent, south-east England — where British Prime Minister Tony Blair hosted the talks — by car and ferry after doctors banned him from flying.
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/ 21 September 2004
Sigmund Freud may have been right all along. Dreams really could be our unconscious minds giving us a glimpse of our deepest, darkest desires. Proponents of Freud’s theories on psychoanalysis — for so long scorned by the scientific establishment — may well be rejoicing. Scientists announced last week that they have found the region of the brain where dreams originate.
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/ 21 September 2004
Natalie du Toit, South Africa’s star performer at the Athens Paralympics, continued her gold-medal onslaught at the Aquatic Centre with a stunning Paralympic record victory in the 100m freestyle on Monday night. Meanwhile, wheelchair athlete Ernst van Dyk was cut off from a certain gold medal and table-tennis player Rosabelle Riese broke her left leg.
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/ 21 September 2004
Mikael Silvestre’s two headers handed Manchester United their first win in five games on Monday and gave Rio Ferdinand a winning return in a 2-1 victory over Liverpool. A Premier League record crowd of 67 857 saw the French defender score his first two goals of the campaign.
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/ 21 September 2004
Fulham striker Andy Cole, manager Chris Coleman and West Bromwich Albion’s Neil Clement had disciplinary charges brought against them by the Football Association (FA) on Monday. Cole got involved in a late brawl sparked by Neil Clement’s wild tackle on Luis Boa Morte in their 1-1 Premiership draw against West Brom on Saturday.
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/ 21 September 2004
Former soccer great Diego Maradona returned to Cuba on Monday to resume treatment for cocaine addiction after a relapse confined him to a psychiatric hospital in his native Argentine and sparked unsuccessful attempts by his family to keep him at home. Maradona was greeted by dozens of journalists after arriving in Havana.
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/ 21 September 2004
Prominent South African runner Hendrick Ramaala won the 2004 edition of the 16km Dam to Dam road race in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on Sunday. A law graduate from the University of Witwatersrand, Ramaala (32) won the popular race in 45 minutes and 59 seconds. He beat a field of more than 7 000 people.
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/ 21 September 2004
The Suncoast Casino and Entertainment World has come to the party with a big splash as far as the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins cricket union is concerned. They are to fund cricket development in the province with an initial donation of R200 000 in the first year of a planned three-year agreement.
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/ 21 September 2004
Cape Town’s visually impaired sprinter Nathan Meyer was moved up from bronze to silver for the Athens Paralympic 200m sprint final that he raced at the Olympic Stadium on Monday. There was still confusion on Tuesday as to what went down in the race. At the finish, Meyer appeared on the giant screen results as the winner of the gold medal.
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/ 21 September 2004
A few years ago Pastel Clothing’s Cape Town plant manufactured 240Â 000 designer T-shirts a month for international fashion houses Tommy Hilfiger and Express. It also produced for Timberland, Abercrombie and Fitch, British Home Stores, Nordstrom and other leading European and American retailers. Today, Hilfiger’s T-shirts come from Indonesia and Express’s from Vietnam.