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/ 23 January 2004
After the build-up week, Scarborough’s match against Chelsea will be easy — Malcolm Reynolds trusts that any last-minute hitches will be ironed out on Friday – such as the thorny question of how to accommodate everyone in the sub-6 000 capacity grounds where Saturday’s tickets, all sold, went for between £10 and £25.
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/ 23 January 2004
When Luis Figo speaks, the whole of Portugal listens. Signed from Barcelona for £40-million three years ago, he was crucial to Real Madrid’s mission of bringing the world’s best players together at one club. Barcelona fans will never forgive Figo for selling his soul to Real Madrid in the summer of 2000.
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/ 23 January 2004
Ivan Campo is the Spaniard who is proving to be a cut above for Bolton as they challenge for honours. At Real Madrid Campo had lost faith in his ability in the profession he had chosen to make his living, a crisis that affected his private life.
“In Bolton I managed to be again what I used to be,” he says.
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/ 23 January 2004
I visited Highbury for the umpteenth time on Tuesday with the towering youths who infest my house, masquerading as children. After watching the table-topping Gunners slide to a 1-0 defeat in the first leg of the League Cup semifinal, their first loss in 30 games on the domestic scene, I came to three logical conclusions.
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/ 22 January 2004
Salome Isaacs, the woman who accused prominent South African judge Siraj Desai of raping her, has unconditionally withdrawn the charges. In a statement on Thursday signed by Isaacs and her husband Mark, she said: ”I hereby wish unconditionally to withdraw the allegation of rape against Mr Siraj Desai.”
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/ 22 January 2004
National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka will not sue those who accused him of having been an apartheid spy, nor resign his post, he said in Johannesburg on Thursday. ”There is a bigger battle to be fought and won in courts. That is the battle against crime,” he said.
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/ 22 January 2004
A strategy by HIV-negative gay men in the UK to avoid infection appears to be to trust that prospective partners with HIV will disclose their status.
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/ 22 January 2004
Evita Bezuidenhout handed out koeksisters and campaign donations to political parties on Thursday at a ”fun raiser” to encourage South Africans to register to vote. ”If you want this to become a dictatorship, don’t do anything this weekend,” said Bezuidenhout.
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/ 22 January 2004
The Inkatha Freedom Party on Thursday asked whether South African Broadcasting Corporation spokesperson Paul Setsetse had received intensive training from Zimbabwe’s Information Minister, Jonathan Moyo. The SABC refused, on Wednesday, to meet with the Democratic Alliance about its election coverage policy.
SABC gives DA cold shoulder