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/ 15 September 2005
United States President George Bush prepared to give a speech in Louisiana on Thursday outlining government plans to rebuild the region devastated by Hurricane Katrina, as the disaster death toll passed the 700 mark. Meanwhile, the south-eastern US coastline was hit by another hurricane, Ophelia.
Radical latte lovers are getting the bean rolling in a new campaign against big brand coffee giants like Starbucks. In a new and frothy front in the struggle to turn back globalisation, United States coffee lovers are being offered the chance to wean themselves off what critics deride as the same blends and decor of big coffee chains.
First came Madonna’s steamy smooch with Britney Spears, then Janet Jackson ignited fury by baring a breast. Now new battlelines are being drawn up in America’s culture wars — over TV condom ads. ”Condoms are the line in the sand,” said Randy Sharp of the American Family Association, which is behind a mass e-mail campaign to safeguard one of television’s last taboos.
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/ 15 November 2004
Colin Powell, a son of Jamaican immigrants, became a United States war hero who soldiered on as the chief US diplomat presenting the case for the Iraq invasion to a sceptical world community. Now the 65th Secretary of State has resigned from President George Bush’s administration.
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/ 12 October 2004
With polls showing the United States presidential race too close to call, the incumbent George Bush headed for the Rocky Mountain state of Colorado on Tuesday to shore up his Republican base there while preparing for his last nationally televised face-off with Democrat John Kerry.
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To the Olympic victors go the spoils, the gold medals and the lucrative shoe contracts, but no one remembers who came in last. Until now. A Canadian writer has dedicated himself to immortalising gallant Athens losers in cyberspace, compiling a losers hall of fame, in a celebration of true Olympic spirit.
Special Report: Olympics 2004
Group of Eight (G8) leaders on Thursday issued a day pass for their rich nations club to counterparts from Africa, on the last day of an annual summit clouded by new transatlantic squabbles. G8 giants were to lunch with leaders of Algeria, Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda.