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/ 18 November 2003
Not for the first time in his Manchester United career, and probably not the last, Ruud van Nistelrooy’s sense of timing was impeccable. Man U’s prolific striker took the chance last Tuesday to impress his national coach.
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/ 18 November 2003
Sinisa Mihajlovic seems to have a Faustian fascination with controversy. Lazio’s Serbia-Montenegro international heaped more shame on himself and his team during their 4-0 home defeat by Chelsea when he spat at Adrian Mutu. Anyone who has followed his career, though, will not have been surprised.
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/ 18 November 2003
And so it begins. The Pom-bashing. It’s Australia versus Jonny Wilkinson on Saturday. That was the line at the ornate State Theatre, where comedians descended, Heineken-sponsored, to entertain the rugby crowds. Jonny kicked 23 of the 28 points against Wales in the quarterfinal, adding all 24 in the semi against France.
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/ 18 November 2003
The Northern Cape could be considered South Africa’s most unusual tourist destination. It’s renowned for its southern Kalahari scenery and Richtersveld mountain desert, its abundant diamonds and for being home to the world’s “first people” – the San Bushmen, Griqua and Nama.
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/ 18 November 2003
Offbeat and unusual are two ways of summing up this anthology of Southern African travel par excellence, but they hardly do it justice. In fact, it’s hard to describe a book that has everything from boys’ own adventure stories, terrifying and blood-curdling wildlife encounters, and downright weird and bizarre accounts of times past.
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/ 18 November 2003
”The second coming of Christ was in 1959, the year David [Koresh] was born.” Ten years after the raid members of the Branch Davidian sect have regrouped, rebuilt their church and, as Alex Hannaford reports, are still in the thrall of their dead leader.
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/ 18 November 2003
Pornography is ubiquitous, more profitable, more acceptable than ever. We argue about the effects on women participants, but scant attention is given to the millions of male users. What does porn do to men? Edward Marriott investigates
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/ 18 November 2003
Men sharing a girl is, if you think about it, as gay as kissing on the lips after a goal; it is a way to have sex with your comrades without actually touching them. That is, in summary, the opinion of my analyst friend on the strange phenomenon of “roasting”, as expounded in most newspapers recently by Nicholas Meikle.
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/ 18 November 2003
The United States’s labour market has roared back to life, creating twice as many jobs as expected last month, government figures showed last week, prompting speculation that the US Federal Reserve could call a halt to its policy of rockbottom interest rates.
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/ 18 November 2003
Blocked drains, heaps of garbage in the streets, remnants of food and disused household items: these things have become a common sight in the Nigerian commercial capital of Lagos over the past few years, prompting some to label it the ”dirtiest city in the world”. But Lagos is about to turn over a new leaf.