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/ 9 December 2004
"I take a perverse delight in getting up people’s noses. I’ve been doing it very successfully since school days and can’t see any reason to break an enjoyable habit". David Bullard is spoiling for another verbal fight, but he doubts whether there are any worthy opponents left.
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/ 9 December 2004
Bayer Leverkusen beat Dynamo Kiev 3-0 on Wednesday to reach the second round of the Champions League. Defender Juan opened the scoring for Leverkusen in the 51st minute and Andrei Voronin, a striker who tormented the visitors from his native country all evening, notched the second in the 77th. Mirko Babic secured the victory in 86th.
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/ 9 December 2004
The United Cricket Board (UCB) went to amazing lengths this week to prove it is different from its counterpart in Zimbabwe. Instead of barring certain journalists from the country, the UCB embraced the media by giving them a behind-the-scenes look at its disciplinary procedures.
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/ 9 December 2004
In Germany tabloids have always been associated with Britain — and headlines comparing football matches to WW II. Now, tabloids are the new fashion for the big German publishers. However, these tabloids have not got anything to do with the Sun‘s kind of journalism. Nor are they a copy of the broadsheets in a smaller size.
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/ 9 December 2004
Adult contemporary may be the most lucrative licence a radio broadcaster can get, but this market looks decidedly overfished. The problem, of course, is that there are a limited number of licences available — and the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) is extremely conscious of overfishing depleting the stock.
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/ 9 December 2004
The scale of killings has been obscured by the United States military’s refusal to collect data. According to Brigadier General Vince Brooks, the deputy director of operations at US central command, ”…If we are going to be honourable about our warfare, we are not out there trying to count up bodies. This is not the appropriate way for us to go”.
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/ 9 December 2004
The Dolphins brought the Eagles down to earth with a bump on Wednesday, when they beat them by 10 runs in their Standard Bank Cup match at Goodyear Park. The Dolphins won the toss and batted first, scoring 218 for seven in their 45 overs. Doug Watson made 74, Dale Benkenstein 34 and Lance Klusener 32 not out.
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/ 9 December 2004
Silverstone racing-track owners are confident they will reach an agreement with formula-one rights holder Bernie Ecclestone for a British Grand Prix next July. The track owners, the British Racing Drivers’ Club, must put pen to paper on a deal before Friday, when the International Automobile Federation will release the final version of next year’s calendar.
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/ 9 December 2004
Luis Figo scored twice as Real Madrid defeated a second-string side Roma 3-0 behind closed doors on Wednesday to clinch a place in the knockout phase of the Champions League. The match at the Olympic stadium was the second of Roma’s two-game ban on supporters following crowd trouble against Dynamo Kiev in September.
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/ 9 December 2004
Tuncay Sanli scored three second-half goals on Wednesday to give Fenerbahce a 3-0 victory over Manchester United and knock the English team off the top spot in Group D of the Champions League. United, which still advances behind Lyon, had been guaranteed a spot in the next round of the tournament and didn’t bring many of its big names to Istanbul.