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/ 22 February 2004
Mel Gibson’s The Passion of Christ is only the latest in a very long line of celluloid portrayals of Jesus that have, in their turn, aroused controversy, delight, outrage and ridicule. About 47 actors — among them Max Von Sydow and Willem Dafoe — have taken a crack at the title role, with wildy varying degrees of success.
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/ 22 February 2004
A bomb attack on a bus in west Jerusalem on Sunday killed ”several people”, police said, while Israeli public radio spoke of at least 30 wounded. ”There have been several killed and many injured. The number 14 bus was packed and the explosion happened in the bus,” police spokesperson Micky Levy told public radio.
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/ 22 February 2004
President George Bush addressed 180 000 screaming car-racing fans in Florida last week and uttered the words they love to hear: ‘Gentlemen, start your engines.’ Dozens of brightly coloured rally cars thundered down the track, but it wasn’t just the Daytona 500 rally Bush was starting: it was the presidential election.
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/ 22 February 2004
Untold billions have been spent trying to conjure the spell for swift weight loss, good health and long life, yet the ‘secret formula’ has been found in 14 simple words: beans, blueberries, broccoli, oats, oranges, pumpkin, salmon, soy, spinach, tea, tomatoes, turkey, walnuts and yoghurt.
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/ 22 February 2004
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters. A secret report, suppressed by United States defence chiefs, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020.
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/ 22 February 2004
‘You’re just so… pretty.’ This is a line which is key to the love story at the heart of Monster, a line whispered by Christina Ricci’s character to Charlize Theron, the odds-on favourite for Best Actress Oscar thanks to her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos.
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/ 22 February 2004
It didn’t take long for the form book to get turned upside down in the Super 12 rugby union tournament. On the opening weekend, the ACT Brumbies, winless in three preseason matches, upset 2003 champions Auckland Blues 44-27 with three second-half tries on Saturday at Canberra.
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/ 21 February 2004
Ten African countries will launch a vast campaign on Monday that is designed to eradicate the crippling disease of polio on the continent once and for all, health officials said. It is estimated that over 60-million children will be vaccinated, the United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) announced in a statement on Friday.