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/ 26 October 2007
MOVIE OF THE WEEK:Shaun de Waal reviews Paul Haggis’s latest offering, <i>In the Valley of Elah</i>.
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/ 26 October 2007
The cusp between Anglo and French music is the testing ground for chanson, writes Philip Sweeney.
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/ 26 October 2007
Jane Rosenthal reviews Clive Algar’s <i>Journeys to the End of the World</i> and Kelly Fletcher reviews Kathy Reichs’s <i>Bones to Ashes</i>.
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/ 26 October 2007
World number four Nikolay Davydenko has been fined 000 for not trying hard enough during his shock defeat by Croatian qualifier Marin Cilic at the St Petersburg Open on Thursday. ”Nikolay Davydenko was fined 000 for lack of best effort in his second-round match against Marin Cilic,” the governing body for men’s tennis, ATP, said in a statement on Friday.
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/ 26 October 2007
Warren Foster reports on the South Project workshops that took place in Johannesburg recently.
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/ 26 October 2007
The fifth man arrested for the murder of historian David Rattray was sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday morning. Zwelihle Mtshali (21) pleaded guilty to one count of murder and one count of attempted robbery with aggravating circumstances.
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/ 26 October 2007
”Education was always known as the kiss of death in the software industry. But I think you want to focus on getting the player interested and emotionally involved.” Game designer Will Wright is responsible for some of the world’s most famous titles — but he’s really excited the prospect of plugging them directly into his brain, he tells Bobbie Johnson.
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/ 26 October 2007
The asset’s coordinates are longitude -0.098610, latitude 51.519699. At least that’s what the read-out on my computer screen says. I’ve never heard my son, Robbie, described as an asset before, but I guess there’s a first time for anything. Two minutes later, I get an update. He’s barely moved.
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/ 26 October 2007
Apple produced a stunning set of financial results on Monday, with one big surprise. In a quarter that has been dominated by talk of the iPhone and new iPods, the Macintosh computers were the stars of the show. Apple sold 2,16-million units, which is more than in any other quarter in its history.
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/ 26 October 2007
It is interesting why so few of us use one of the breakthroughs of recent years: the ability to search the web from wherever we are with a cellphone. This ought to be hugely empowering. There are a number of reasons why this hasn’t happened and why it may be about to change.