The problem with The Vagina Monologues is that a show about the worship of a sexual organ is easily lost on those of us who want to understand the deeper meaning behind men’s, and indeed women’s, attitudes to sexual violence.
In Damascus, where anger over the invasion of Iraq alternates with pride in the resistance, there is one sure way to lighten the mood. Suggest the war was launched because of Saddam Hussein’s suspected weapons of mass destruction. Everyone here believes it is a war for oil.
He is an unlikely public figure, a quiet man whose hobbies include preparing Swedish fish dishes — but for a few months, the world hung on his every word. So could Hans Blix have done anything to stop the war?
After the new post-apartheid Constitution was adopted in 1997, restrictions were swept aside and mines reported queues of up to 500 women vying for the chance to work underground. Now women are snubbing domestic employment to prove their mettle in the male-dominated mining industry.
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Now that the dust around the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report has settled, the reputation of former president FW de Klerk’s legacy as a peacemaker and a co-liberator is being reassessed. He might have been more of a political pragmatist than a peacemaker.
It is probably most accurate to call him Iraq’s president-elect. The moment President Saddam Hussein falls, Jay Garner will take over, with the kind of sweeping power over the whole of Iraq that even Saddam has been unable to exercise for the past few years.
Scientists in California have provided the first detailed look at how human antibodies may drive HIV to mutate.
An unexpectedly prolonged war in Iraq could trigger a world recession that would bite into South African export prospects — but the local economy should withstand the turbulence reasonably well, say economists.
Governments, popes and presidents should not try to control the use of genetic knowledge, the man who began the DNA revolution said yesterday.