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/ 26 January 2001
Just about the only people not making money out of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo are its long-suffering citizens.
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/ 8 September 2000
In August 1936 Jesse Owens became an Olympic immortal by winning four golds at the Berlin Games. Four months later he had been banned from athletics and reduced to racing against horses, writes Donald McRae Jesse Owens had hit the road again. He had arrived in Havana the day before, on a wet Christmas Day. […]
As he turned toward the polling station, Mandela was asked how he was gong to vote. He smiled broadly. "I’ve been agonising over that question…".