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/ 30 November 2004
Argentina have backed down in a club-versus-country conflict and called up nine players from local amateur sides for Saturday’s rugby union international with South Africa in Buenos Aires. Argentina had initially threatened to seek an IRB ban on players not released by their European clubs but coach Marcelo Loffreda has now accepted he will be without nine first-choice players.
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/ 30 November 2004
During his inaugural address in 1963, the then Alabama governor, George Wallace, took to the steps of the state capitol and made a promise. He pledged: ”In the name of the greatest people that ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny and I say: Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation for ever.” On Monday it looked as if he might get his wish.
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/ 30 November 2004
South African flanker Schalk Burger was named to the 21-man Barbarians squad on Monday to play New Zealand at Twickenham this weekend. Burger was one of eight South Africans picked by Barbarians coach Bob Dwyer for Saturday’s match. Dwyer also named Mike Catt and Chris Jones, who both missed out on selection for England’s internationals this month.
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/ 30 November 2004
Arsenal return to Old Trafford for the first time since last month’s infamous ”Battle of the Buffet” when they face arch-rivals Manchester United in the quarterfinals of the League Cup on Wednesday. But this latest encounter is set to feature a host of reserve players with both clubs resting their stars for more important tournaments.
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/ 30 November 2004
South Africa flanker Schalk Burger won the player-of-the year award on Monday as the Springboks dominated the International Rugby Board’s top honours. The reigning Tri-Nations champions beat out France for the team-of-the year award and Jake White was named coach of the year.
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/ 30 November 2004
Rahul Dravid’s patient knock of 80 helped India take a useful first innings lead against South Africa in the second and final Test at Eden Gardens on Tuesday.
India reached 359-6 at stumps on the third day in reply to South Africa’s 305.
Dravid’s laborious five-hour knock, in which he faced 217 deliveries and hit eight boundaries, was a good sheet-anchor role.
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/ 29 November 2004
Mining company Harmony said on Monday it had obtained 10,8%t of the issued share capital of competitor Gold Fields in the first stage of its hostile take-over bid.
This represented some 53,4 million shares by last Friday’s noon deadline for the early settlement offer, the company said in a statement.
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/ 29 November 2004
In one of their more delicate rulings of recent years, British television watchdogs ruled Monday that a pig sexually pleasured on television by a minor celebrity did not feel degraded by the experience. Dozens of viewers complained about the episode in so-called reality television show The Farm, in which a series of celebrities were sent to do tough work with agricultural crops and animals.
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/ 29 November 2004
Rwanda has sent thousands of troops into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in recent days, a Western diplomat in Kinshasa said on Monday, but United Nations officials said they had found no evidence of such an incursion. The Western diplomat, speaking on condition he not be identified, said that Rwandan troops have been seen crossing into the DRC since Friday.