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/ 26 February 2004
Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin fleetingly braved the catwalk on Wednesday evening when he walked to the podium at the opening of this year’s Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town. ”It’s the first time ever [that] I’ve walked on the catwalk,” he joked, adding that while he might survive, ”whether the fashion industry would survive” was not so certain.
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/ 26 February 2004
The United States Coast Guard said on Wednesday it had intercepted a Panamanian-flagged vessel from Gonaive, northern Haiti, in waters off Florida carrying 28 people, including seven crewmen and 21 Haitian refugees.
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/ 26 February 2004
Two aftershocks from Tuesday’s Moroccan earthquake brought down more buildings in northern towns and villages on Wednesday, leaving thousands of homeless people trying to erect makeshift shelters in the rain and cold.
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/ 26 February 2004
France on Wednesday night called for an ”immediate” international civilian force to restore order in Haiti and help stem the poverty-stricken Caribbean state’s slide into chaos. Paris was highly critical of the embattled Haitian President, Jean-Baptiste Aristide, but did not call for his resignation.
Haitians flee to Florida
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/ 26 February 2004
For lo, the multitudes did gather in multiplexes across the land, as the prophets had foretold. And at last they beheld The Passion of the Christ, and did render unto Mel Gibson millions upon millions of dollars in ticket and merchandising sales.
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/ 26 February 2004
At first glance, Israel’s planned 700km wall and fence on its Eastern flank seems defensible, as it will undoubtedly reduce suicide bombings on Israeli territory. Under closer scrutiny, it emerges as a gross injustice that is justifiably condemned in much of the world, and even by some Israelis.
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/ 26 February 2004
They slice through traffic on their motorbikes, racing each other at breakneck speed with one hand holding a cellphone. They listen to heavy metal, read Günter Grass and admire Tom Cruise. They don’t go to the mosque the way their parents did and they have given up on politics. A third of Iran’s 65-million people are aged between 15 and 30,
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/ 26 February 2004
It is enough to make Lenin turn in his mausoleum, where he lies only metres away across Red Square. A Moscow businessman has bought a large stake in GUM, the legendary Soviet-era retail store in Red Square opposite the Kremlin, and plans to turn the symbol of Communist Party privileges into a supermarket.
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/ 26 February 2004
”When I recently read law at the University of Cape Town (UCT) as a ”mature student”, I was struck by the widespread deference to authority, the all-pervasive atmosphere of rote learning, and the almost exclusive assessment by examination.” Rob Turrell comments.
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/ 26 February 2004
They say the wheels of Parliament turn slowly. Obviously no one told anyone in the hallowed halls of the resignation of Andrew Feinstein, the African National Congress MP who resigned as co-chairperson of Scopa as political pressure came to bear in the arms deal scandal way back in 2001. He is still listed as the member for the Sea Point constituency office.