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/ 31 October 2002
E was bitten badly by the Decode bug. In 2000 he bought 30m kronas’ worth of shares – more than 230,000 pounds at today’s exchange rates – when prices were at their peak. They are now worth considerably less than 10,000 pounds and he faces bankruptcy.
One evening a small column of white, four-wheel drive cars passed through the villages of the Great Rift Valley in southern Ethiopia, in a chocolate smell of long-dry earth wetted by the early rains. To the local people it must have looked like one more foreign aid agency on the move.
Enemy at the Gates mixes imagination and truth, writes James Meek.