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/ 31 October 2007
The Big Game was a victory for The Real Man and a crushing defeat for the illusion that we will ever admire anything as much as a good bit of bone-crunching. Sure, we’ll nod and smile in the general direction of the man wearing the Amanda Laird Cherry shirt and the baby carrier. Even rugby players appear in <i>GQ</i> and <i>Cosmo</i> Man spreads, wearing fine suits and not running into one another.
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/ 31 October 2007
For a room in which one of the most astonishing experiments in modern science is being conducted, the laboratory in the J Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, is understated. It is divided into wooden workstations reminiscent of a school science lab. There are stacks of glass test tubes and pipettes, and one wall is lined with air-controlled boxes containing Petri dishes, writes Ed Pilkington.
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/ 31 October 2007
The Black Management Forum (BMF) has expressed its desire to create proper opportunities to talk about serious issues around transformation. A conference once a year is simply not sufficient, it says. The alternate euphoria and depression resulting from the outcomes of conferences of this sort seem to impose a constraint on us from doing a thorough appraisal of it.
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/ 31 October 2007
By the time you read this, the Film and Publications Board should have decided whether to allow screenings of One Night Stand (Pour Une Nuit) at the upcoming Out in Africa gay and lesbian film festival. One Night Stand is a film by Émile Jouvet, who decided to investigate lesbian women’s attitudes to porn by … well, by making a porn movie. This promises to be very interesting.
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/ 31 October 2007
Fasset — the sector education training authority (Seta) for finance, accounting, management consulting and other financial services — has achieved a 100% placement rate, which is 29% higher than the 71% Seta average for placement into employment or income- generating projects within three months after completing training.
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/ 31 October 2007
I have interviewed Hillary Clinton a handful of times since our initial meeting in 2000, during her first Senate race, when I must have seen her give 50 to 100 speeches en route to her thrashing of Republican opponent Rick Lazio. She is a much more fluid politician today than she was in 1999, certainly. But she is still not known as an especially expansive interview subject, writes Michael Tomasky.
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/ 30 October 2007
Former spy boss Billy Masetlha on Tuesday told the Hatfield Community Court how he went though a period of humiliation and victimisation while trying to get access to the premises of the National Intelligence Agency in order to get the information needed by the inspector general of intelligence.
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/ 30 October 2007
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe will be invited to attend the second European Union-Africa summit in December in Lisbon, a Portuguese official said on Tuesday. Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown, with some backing in Europe, has indicated neither he nor any other senior minister will attend the summit if the Zimbabwean leader does.
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/ 30 October 2007
A Leopard can, after all, change its spots. The Leopards rugby side, which competes in the Absa Currie Cup first division, will forthwith be known as the Platinum Leopards. They became the first black-owned rugby franchise in South Africa when Royal Bafokeng Sports Holdings on Tuesday announced a groundbreaking sponsorship agreement.