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/ 17 October 2003
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals has denied it has abused a dominant position in the market to the detriment of consumers, and charged excessive prices for its products. On Thursday, the Competition Commission found that Ingelheim and GlaxoSmithKline abused their dominant positions in their respective anti-retroviral drugs markets.
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/ 17 October 2003
My generation knows plenty, despite being born after the death of Elvis. But venture back into the primeval mists of the mid-1970s and we become less certain of things. And nothing is more confounding to us than the notion that once, impossibly long ago, people used something other than the decimal system.
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/ 17 October 2003
Georgi Donevski has fought the memory of being forcibly marched out of Greece for longer than he cares to remember. He was wrenched from his parents, taken from his village in the dark and forced to trek across the mountains. It was March 30 1948, the height of Greece’s brutal civil war, and he was a boy of 12.
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/ 17 October 2003
A bitter row has broken out between the CIA and Pentagon over reports that Iraqi uranium was smuggled to Iran, demonstrating that the rifts between the US agencies are as deep as ever.
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/ 17 October 2003
The UN security council ended one of the most acrimonious diplomatic wrangles in recent years yesterday by voting to provide a UN mandate for the US-British force in Iraq. France had been thought likely to abstain and Syria to vote against but in the end the vote was 15-0.
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/ 17 October 2003
The eulogies have begun already. Extraordinary things are being written about the Pope for his 25th jubilee this week, yet these are mere aperitifs for the great banquet of adulation undoubtedly to come when the pontiff finally shuffles off his mortal mitre.
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/ 17 October 2003
If freedom of speech is the beating heart of democracy, then the political cartoonist operates like a pacemaker. Unlike long-winded political articles that require patience and literacy, a cartoon can cut to the heart of an issue, encapsulate a debate, display a viewpoint and shame our leaders in the most immediate manner, writes Andy Davis.
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/ 17 October 2003
The vagaries of change have been profitable for a youthful breed of entrepreneurial art dealers, tastemakers whose influence has shaped who and what is being collected in the post-apartheid era. A new breed of savvy tastemakers are making their mark on the art scene, writes Sean O’Toole.
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/ 17 October 2003
<b>NOT QUITE THE MOVIES OF THE WEEK:</b> As with many mainstream movies stealing a bit of style from the independents (but no substance), <i>View from the Top</i> is going as quirky, with a light, slightly absurdist tone, and a look to match. Luckily, opening at the same time as <i>View from the Top</i> is <i>Secretary</i>, which acts as something of a corrective to its fake quirkiness.
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/ 17 October 2003
‘A friend started calling me Vinny da Vinci when I was still young. Before I started DJing he named me after another artist," Vincent Motshegoa says about the history of his stage name. House music in South Africa is like a religion and Vinny da Vinci is its patron saint, writes Dikatso Mametse.