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/ 5 November 2003
The Pentagon has begun recruiting for local draft boards, dredging up painful memories of Vietnam era conscription at a time of deepening misgiving about America’s occupation of Iraq.
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/ 5 November 2003
Sri Lanka was plunged into crisis on Tuesday night as the country’s president suspended parliament, sacked three ministers and brought the army on to the streets of the capital Colombo, in a move criticised by her own prime minister as seeking ”chaos and anarchy”.
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/ 5 November 2003
The band pumped out brassy dance tunes, many dedicated to the gritty urban realities of New York. A few couples in the black tie and taffeta crowd found a space to dance, but most milled about in the packed ballroom, gravitating towards the stage as they waited for the president.
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/ 5 November 2003
Large quantities of British arms and internal security equipment are being sold to Israel despite the government’s public criticism of the country’s human rights record and growing violence there, the Guardian can reveal.
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/ 5 November 2003
The American TV network CBS admitted yesterday it had abandoned plans to broadcast a major two-part film about the life of Ronald Reagan. The move follows protests from conservatives who claimed that the mini-series was biased and dwelled on the former president’s gaffes.
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/ 5 November 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was unable to shake off the weakness which emerged at the opening on Wednesday and was stuck in the red at noon. Dealers said the market was taking its cue from gloomier international markets, with an uninspiring close in the US, the Nikkei ended softer and European
markets are currently under pressure.
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/ 5 November 2003
With the group stages over, it is my privilege to name a Rugby World Cup 2003 Select XV, who will play Mars (or is it Uranus?) next week. That’s the problem with bloody World XVs… who do they play against? Anyway, I’ve sifted through the memory banks, had a chat with some of the other lads, and come up with this little lot…
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/ 5 November 2003
Teen girl magazines do not aspire to journalism’s cutting edge. They focus on celebrity fluff, feel-good features and fashion, beauty and boyfriend advice, an editorial strategy that locks up one of the most profitable niches in international publishing. But last week’s launch of the local version of <i>Seventeen</i>, reawakens old concerns about the formula’s local potential.
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/ 5 November 2003
Japan, the country that built its manufacturing prowess on imitating the best, is offering Asia’s template for economic success to Africa. Ryokichi Hirono, economic adviser to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, says African leaders often ask him how they can emulate the Asian success story.
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/ 5 November 2003
Malawi police are losing the battle against crafty marijuana smugglers, who have evaded a nationwide clampdown by transporting the popular narcotic in hearses, coffins and ambulances, with the support of rogue government officials. Growers have come up with ingenious ways to avoid detection and transport their crops.