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/ 28 January 2005
Plans to build an underwater branch of the Guggenheim museum are dead in the water, Rio’s mayor said on Thursday. ”The first project offered lots of risks, even functional ones since it was a submerged museum,” said Cesar Maia. Plans for the Rio Guggenheim were attacked almost as soon as they were unveiled.
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/ 28 January 2005
The former controller of WorldCom testified on Thursday that former CEO Bernard Ebbers apologised to him in 2000 after company accountants were forced to cover up more than -million in expenses. David Myers, testifying at Ebbers’ fraud trial, said he encountered the CEO in a hallway on an afternoon in October 2000.
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/ 28 January 2005
With prospects of retaining the Premier Soccer League title receding fast, Kaizer Chiefs need to salvage something from what remains of the season. Though participating in two finals and winning one of them might be a great achievement for many clubs, for Chiefs and their fanatical supporters this is not enough.
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/ 28 January 2005
So seamlessly has De Villiers adjusted to international cricket that it’s easy to forget he’s just 20 years old. By comparison, Jacques Kallis was also 20 when he first played Test cricket. After five matches, he averaged eight with the bat and questions about his ability to survive at the highest level were widespread.
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/ 28 January 2005
Ahead of Saturday’s highly charged FA Cup clash with the club he left two months ago, Southampton manager Harry Redknapp tells Donald McRae about the pain of his new job. Despite Southampton’s welcome 2-0 defeat of a woeful Liverpool last Saturday, the struggle has merely intensified.
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/ 28 January 2005
”Blacks don’t have an identity in South African rugby because of the complexities of what constitutes black. Black is not coloured and coloured is not black. While this debate continues, the white conservatives sit back and play the role of puppeteer.” Former Springbok communications manager Mark Keohane writes for the Mail & Guardian.
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/ 28 January 2005
A long-awaited retrospective of the art of Dumile Feni launches this weekend, at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. It is a maniacal visualisation of what the word "struggle" meant to him, writes Brenton Maart.
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/ 28 January 2005
Postal workers in the south-eastern French city of Saint Etienne refused to do their rounds on Thursday after they were denied extra pay to cope with the biting winter cold, employees and management said. About 70 of the workers did not deliver mail to homes and businesses.
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/ 28 January 2005
Nick McDonald, a former policeman who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald at a Dallas movie theatre after President John F Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, died on Thursday. He was 76. McDonald arrived at Dallas’s Dealey Plaza moments after Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963.
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/ 28 January 2005
As criminal proceedings hang over 40 MPs linked to Travelgate, Parliament’s multimillion-rand travel voucher scam, liquidation hearings that could implicate a further 70 parliamentarians are stuck in the Cape High Court. The 40 MPs currently involved in plea bargaining negotiations with the Scorpions were clients of two travel agencies that have been liquidated.