Staff Reporter
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/ 16 November 2007

Clinton sparkles in Vegas debate

Hillary Clinton regained her frontrunner status in the Democratic race during a two-hour debate in Las Vegas on Friday marked by renewed personal squabbling. Clinton needed a good performance to make up the ground she lost in the last debate on October 30 when her main rivals, Barack Obama and John Edwards, ganged up on her.

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/ 16 November 2007

Fancy a drink, Graeme?

It was Sunday night in Jozi in the type of pub in which the ”No Smoking” signs seem to turn a deeper shade of mustard gas with each devious gentle expulsion of spent tobacco. The half-price pizza special was long over. Worse, the kitchen was closed. So the hungry worked on their thirst instead.

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/ 16 November 2007

Gimme the money, or I’ll staple you

A man wearing a ski mask used a stapler to hold up an eastern Kentucky ice cream store — and briefly got away with , authorities said. Gerald Rocchi (32) was arrested shortly after he flashed a chrome-plated stapler at an employee of the Ice Cream Shop in Ashland on Tuesday and demanded money, police said.

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/ 16 November 2007

Lekota: There is no ‘third way’

<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>African National Congress (ANC) leaders will not agree to a compromise candidate in the party’s presidential race because this could spark a rebellion among members, ANC national chairperson Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota said this week. Lekota also accused Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi of knowing nothing about the workings of the ANC.

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/ 16 November 2007

Pallo Jordan: ‘We need fresh minds’

<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>Party intellectual Pallo Jordan has made his most public call yet on both President Thabo Mbeki and the party’s deputy president Jacob Zuma not to contest the top job. He says the party needs fresh minds to lead it in the 21st century. Jordan argued that Mbeki has effectively been leader of the movement and the government for 15 years.

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/ 16 November 2007

We condemn all forms of rape

A couple weeks ago, the United States delegation circulated a draft resolution in the United Nations General Assembly calling for the elimination of rape by governments and armed groups. This draft ­concentrates on rape used for political and military purposes, and remains pending action before the third committee of the General Assembly, writes Dumisani Kumalo.