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/ 29 October 2004
European Union leaders will meet in an emergency session in Rome on Friday to deal with an unprecedented institutional crisis that deepened this week when the incoming commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, was forced to withdraw his entire team of commissioners. Barroso chose to backtrack when it became clear that members of the European Parliament would vote down his choice of commissioners.
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It took a good hour of trudging through the autumn leaves to the side doors of people’s homes, poring over voter lists and sheaves of pamphlets, and looking out nervously for dogs, before Grace Brookins struck gold. Robbie Phillips (68), a retired factory worker, was at home, was willing to answer the door to a stranger, and was inclined to vote for John Kerry.
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/ 29 October 2004
To be at loggerheads with one chairperson could be construed as unfortunate; to fall out with two, as Gary Megson did at West Bromwich Albion, suggests he either has a penchant for confrontation or resents figures in authority. Megson, however, denies he is a control freak.
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/ 29 October 2004
What would a Springbok team announcement be without controversy? Since the end of isolation all that has really changed is the greater focus upon representivity. In 2004, the public is bemused by the inclusion of Boland wing Jongi Nokwe in Jake White’s squad of 33. In 1992, it was Botha Rossouw, a back-row forward from Western Transvaal.
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Whether George W Bush or John Kerry wins the election on Tuesday, the next president of the United States faces an overflowing in-tray of international problems. These include domestic division, hatred abroad and an urgent need for action in the Middle East.
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There is an elderly woman with a long-winded anecdote about the old days on the prairies; a farmer with a desperate appeal for drought assistance and lower petrol prices; and a set of African refugees who want a group photograph of themselves. Tom Daschle, the most powerful Democrat in Washington, has time for them all.
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/ 29 October 2004
English Premiership side Chelsea have sacked Adrian Mutu after the Romanian striker failed a drugs test. The 25-year-old tested positive for a banned substance in September. Chelsea have decided to write off a possible transfer fee for Mutu, a £15,8-million signing from Parma last season, who may face a two-year ban from the game.
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/ 29 October 2004
After undergoing an estimated 20 drugs tests last season, tennis icon Andre Agassi says there is no way anyone playing the sport can cheat the system. Despite the earlier 2004 furore over the Greg Rusedski positive nandrolone test — successfully appealed — Agassi maintains his faith in the system.
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/ 29 October 2004
Andre Markgraaff, the convener of the Springbok rugby selectors, has been appointed the new deputy president of the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu). The African National Congress Youth League and Markgraaff patched up their differences at a meeting in Johannesburg on Thursday.
United we stand
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/ 29 October 2004
A former British army captain who claims to have worked with Winston Churchill on secret wartime operations has been found guilty of reworking a painting by another former employer, the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. John Peter Moore, a former private secretary to the artist, cut up a stolen 1969 Dalí painting, The Double Image of Gala, and used it to create what he claimed was a new Dalí.