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/ 13 September 2004
Too easy. That’s how Roger Federer makes tennis seem. He takes a game filled with grunts and looks as if he’s gliding effortlessly on the court, almost floating, artistically painting lines and corners with winners. Federer routed 2001 champion Lleyton Hewitt 6-0, 7-6 (3), 6-0 in the United States Open final on Sunday to win his third Grand Slam title of the year and the fourth of his young career.
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/ 13 September 2004
Terrorism is getting nastier. Compare and contrast the anarchists and nihilists of the 19th and early 20th centuries who shot kings and presidents, with the Chechen separatists who have killed 350 children and teachers. Recall the indignation that accompanied Irish Republican Army (IRA) failures to give warnings of their bombs, thus killing innocents. Palestinian suicide bombers are not noted for giving warnings.
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/ 13 September 2004
Nobody has ever seen a mysterious, sub-atomic fragment that permeates the atmosphere and explains how everything is the way it is. They call it the ”God particle”. Some say it doesn’t exist but, in the ultimate leap of faith, physicists across the world are preparing to build one of the most ambitious and expensive science experiments the world has ever seen to try to find it.
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/ 13 September 2004
Moroka Swallows laboured unnecessarily against the relatively inexperienced Dynamos to register a narrow 1-0 win in a Castle Premiership match at the Rand Stadium in Johannesburg on Sunday. Striker Shaun Parmell blasted home a beauty in the 53rd minute.
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/ 13 September 2004
Two-time US Open champion Retief Goosen of South Africa shot a 3-under-par 67 on Sunday but couldn’t catch Japan’s Hideki Kase, who fired a final round 65 to win the Suntory Open. Kase recovered from a bogey on the first hole with six birdies at the Sobu Country Club to finish at 13-under 267 for a three-stroke lead over compatriots Tomohiro Kondo, Toru Taniguchi and Katsuya Nakagawa.
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/ 12 September 2004
Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party was ”wasting time” by implementing electoral reforms without taking part in talks with the opposition, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai, said on Saturday. Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd of about 15 000 supporters, Tsvangirai said President Robert Mugabe’s decision to implement electoral reforms created a ”challenge” for the Southern African Development Community.
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/ 12 September 2004
The Russian military on Saturday extended its offer of a -million reward for information leading to the capture of two separatist leaders who, the Kremlin claims, were behind the Beslan massacre. The Russian security service announced it would be willing to pay the bounty to any Chechen terrorist who turned informer.
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/ 12 September 2004
Sixty-eight suspected mercenaries including former British soldier Simon Mann begin serving jail sentences this week in Zimbabwe on various convictions related to an alleged plot to stage a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea. But analysts and observers who followed the six-week trial of the men say the proceedings failed to shed light on the alleged plot and that very little hard evidence was introduced in court.
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/ 12 September 2004
Early one morning this week, when the police have yet to set up too many checkpoints, Abu Mujahed will strap a mortar underneath a car, drive to a friend’s in central Baghdad and bury the weapon in his garden. In the evening he will return with the rest of his group, sleep for a few hours and then take the weapon from its hiding place.