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/ 4 September 2006
It takes a special sense of irony to appreciate the Hobson Hall Women’s Day challenge. This annual celebration brings the houses in our university hall together in friendly competition over all things sporty. The rifle challenge is my particular favourite. In this event a row of inflated condoms is strung in a line, where they blow picturesquely in the breeze.
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/ 4 September 2006
The child’s skin is taut against her minute frame, unable to hold the weight of her own head
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/ 4 September 2006
Early last month, thousands of demonstrators attended a rally in Berlin to show support for Israel. Germany’s Jewish community was there, of course. There were also members of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrat party. But as well as politicians in suits, another group had turned up to express their enthusiasm for Israel’s attack on Lebanon — the Anti-Germans.
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/ 4 September 2006
Imagine you are watching Zizi Kodwa, described as “spokesperson of the African National Congress Youth League”, outside the court where Jacob Zuma was recently on trial. Kodwa was reported to have issued a call for “dogs to be hit very hard until their owners and handlers come out into the open”. My name, according to the reports, was one of four on a list of “dogs”.
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/ 3 September 2006
Doctors at a Taipei hospital are fighting to save a girl’s life after an eel jumped into her mouth and ruptured her esophagus, a newspaper said on Sunday. The Apple Daily said a three-year-old girl was attacked by the eel a month ago and has been kept at the intensive-care unit at the Mackay Memorial hospital ever since.
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/ 3 September 2006
Hurricane John ripped tin roofs off homes, knocked out power and sent billboards flying in the southern tip of Baja California before weakening to a tropical storm that could still bring flash floods and mudslides as it crosses the peninsula. No deaths were reported as the storm blew through the city of La Paz.
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/ 3 September 2006
A Zimbabwean law student claims to have talked his way into the Guinness World Records book by giving a lecture that lasted 99 hours and 30 minutes, state radio reported on Saturday. Errol Muzawazi (22) pipped the previous record holder by one hour.
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/ 3 September 2006
Political rivals in Côte d’Ivoire will meet in the country’s administrative capital, Yamoussoukro, on Monday to try to settle their differences against a background of growing United Nations impatience. Monday’s meeting is aimed at ”assessing the peace process and smoothing out differences”.
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/ 3 September 2006
If David Beckham was hoping for an early return to international football, the Real Madrid midfielder will have watched Steven Gerrard’s inspiring display in England’s 5-0 defeat of Andorra with a growing sense of gloom. Asked once again to fill the right-hand position that Beckham had for so long made his own, Gerrard responded in sterling fashion.
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/ 3 September 2006
Leading the Falcons 26-12 at half-time in the Currie Cup premier-division fixture played in very warm conditions at Absa Park, Kimberley, on Saturday afternoon, Griquas were made to fight all the way by Piet Krause’s team before coming from behind to win the match 36-27.