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/ 10 February 2004
Spilling out of their school in Saint-Ouen, north of Paris, they are so keen to get a word in that, on a bitter afternoon, they are queuing up on the pavement to march. Most are against the law banning Muslim headscarves from schools. A few are in favour, and happy to say so. France is not the only Western state to face the demands of an increasingly radical Islam.
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/ 10 February 2004
For the ruling party facing a general election there are huge advantages of incumbency. Many are as unavoidable as they are inevitable. In South Africa, the ANC government can plan its policy roll-out to suit the election timetable. It can publish government studies, as it did last November, which extol the virtues of the government’s performance.
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/ 10 February 2004
Australian Prime Minister John Howard is under minimal pressure to follow the lead of United States President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and hold an independent inquiry into intelligence used to justify the war in Iraq. Howard is so far resisting calls to hold an independent inquiry.
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/ 10 February 2004
Bill Gates is a contradiction: geeky and predatory, an arch-capitalist and history’s most generous philanthropist. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which he runs with his wife, is 10 times the size of Rockefeller’s charitable foundation and three times that of Henry Ford’s. He has pledged to give away his -billion fortune –derived largely from stock in his company — before he dies.
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/ 10 February 2004
A young and inexperienced South African men’s hockey team showed plenty of the guts and determination they will need in spades at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Madrid next month to beat Canada 1-0 at Pretoria Technikon on Monday night.
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/ 10 February 2004
Premiership stars Nwankwo Kanu and Frederic Kanoute aim to fire Nigeria and Mali into an African Nations Cup final showdown by breaking the hearts of Tunisia and Morocco in the semi-finals on Wednesday. Nigeria, who knocked out defending champions Cameroon 2-1 in the last eight, take on the hosts in front of 60 000 passionate Tunisian fans.
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/ 10 February 2004
At the peak of his powers he was reverently called a freak of nature, but now nature has cruelly turned on Jonah Lomu, the gargantuan All Blacks wing, who faces a life in a wheelchair if he does not get a kidney transplant. Lomu struck fear in those he faced at the height of his career, became the most marketable face of the sport worldwide.
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/ 10 February 2004
Shane Warne’s much-anticipated comeback to cricket after a 12-month doping ban was restricted to a short time at the batting crease on Tuesday as rain interrupted an Australian match between Victoria’s 2nd XI and the Queensland Academy. Warne missed the opening day of the match to serve out the last day of his suspension.
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/ 10 February 2004
Morocco has emerged as a strong challenger to South Africa in the bidding to become the first African country to host soccer’s World Cup. Moroccan bid leader Saad Kettani contests the idea that South Africa should get the World Cup as a reward for having gotten rid of apartheid and embraced all-race democracy.
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/ 10 February 2004
The Telkom PGA Championship has been given added impetus with the inclusion of two of the country’s most exciting young professionals in Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel for the R1,5-million tournament at Woodhill Country Club this week.