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/ 19 November 2004
Having turned the screws on disparate elements in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi, South African mediators know about applying pressure.
The players in Côte d’Ivoire — who have made a pig’s ear out of a carefully crafted French peace deal and a hash of an African follow-up pact — are about to learn this. On Saturday President Thabo Mbeki will see Guillame Soro of the New Forces rebel movement in Côte d’Ivoire.
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/ 19 November 2004
Towards the end of his life the American anthropologist and author, Robert Ardrey, retired to Kalk Bay. I was to get to know him for a few brief weeks. In a conversation in January 1980, he spoke with enthusiasm about “some guy up in Zululand who is saying that crocodiles have maternal instincts. I was able to tell Ardrey that the “guy in Zululand’s" name was Tony Pooley and that he was a good friend.
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/ 19 November 2004
Because it breeds deep inside forests, <i>Anopheles dirus</i>, a deadly species of malaria-carrying mosquito had been evading detection by regular ground surveys. So Aruna Srivastava from the Malaria Research Centre in New Delhi devised another approach to find them. This is a tale of how space-age technology can fight age-old enemies of man.
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/ 19 November 2004
Truworths CEO Michael Mark has hotly denied trade union claims that the retail chain is increasing cheap imports at the cost of local manufacturing jobs. "We find it very frustrating that they are targeting us in this way when we have done so much to ensure we import as little as possible, while other retailers have not," said Mark.
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/ 19 November 2004
The shift from reading newspapers to surfing the net appears to be speeding up. A study of declining circulation figures and the statistics that show the increasing use of newspaper websites suggests that the switch from print to screen is happening more swiftly than web missionaries might have predicted. People of all ages are becoming used to obtaining not only breaking news through their computers but also analysis of, and comment on, the day’s main stories.
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/ 19 November 2004
One might think a movie called Number 5 is a low-budget work by an austere auteur who regards narrative titles as suspiciously commercial: one to four were probably 8mm experimental pieces he made in film school. But Number 5 is, at an estimated -million a minute, the biggest-budget movie ever made and could hardly be more commercial.
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/ 19 November 2004
Human Rights Watch has called on the United Nations Security Council to take action against what it claims are ongoing rights violations in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. The NGO made the appeal in Nairobi this week during the launch of a report on the political and humanitarian crisis in Darfur, entitled If We Return, We Will Be Killed.
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/ 19 November 2004
Few that have been relegated from the Premiership have fallen as far as the Owls. In 1992/93, Sheffield Wednesday were having, arguably, the most successful campaign of their history. They reach both domestic cup finals, play in Europe, and finish a creditable seventh, immediately above Tottenham, Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea.
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/ 19 November 2004
In a statement that directly echoed United States President George W Bush, Qasim Daoud, Iraq’s interim Minister of State for National Security, told a news conference last week: ”Mission accomplished … Fallujah has been liberated.” He proudly recited the list of the dead — 1 400 terrorists, foreigners and Saddamists. And what about civilians, the women and children trapped in the fighting zone. Any casualties? He avoided the question.
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/ 19 November 2004
Though it follows that some managers are not right for certain clubs, others fit, being in the right job at the right time for the club’s development. Harry Redknapp is one such. Redknapp’s reputation in the game is legendary, from playing on the right wing in West Ham’s Moore-Hurst-Peters days, to managing the club and going on to Portsmouth.