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/ 22 December 2002
A dozen machete-wielding thugs broke into Alice Auma’s Nairobi slum-shack on Thursday, with a message from her main rival in Kenya’s 27 December election. ‘They said, ”hold a rally, and we’ll rape you”,’ says Auma (38) who is standing to regain a civic seat for her small opposition party.
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/ 22 December 2002
Political leaders are preparing their peoples for war. Mighty military machines are ready for action, as thousands of troops take up positions near the borders of Iraq. The bitterness of the rhetoric between Washington and Baghdad suggests war is inevitable, probably imminent. But whether that is true depends on calculations still being made by two men – Presidents George Bush and Saddam Hussein.
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/ 22 December 2002
Shirley Bassey’s ”Goldfinger” booms out of a ghetto blaster as five men attempt to sashay on tiptoe the length of a dance studio in the heart of Paris. ”Be relaxed and virile,” shouts coach Veronique J. ”Think of James Bond. Tight bottoms and hold those stomachs in.”
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/ 21 December 2002
The first group of 100 lucky people chosen to witness Ireland’s oldest calendar ”clock” in operation were allowed into the chamber of a giant burial mound this week, an environment ministry representative said.
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/ 21 December 2002
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> team assesses the performance of the various opposition parties in the previous year.
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/ 21 December 2002
Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, last night blocked a global deal to provide cheap drugs to poor countries, following intense lobbying of the White House by America’s pharmaceutical giants.
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/ 21 December 2002
I felt bad for Thabo. So I think did many people. Though most of the delegates in the hall were too busy ululating their praise song for Nelson Mandela to have time to contemplate the feelings of their current president.
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/ 21 December 2002
Throughout history humankind has professed an aversion to war. Yet, strangely, our heroes and heroines have tended to be warmongers, warrior kings and queens, conquering emperors and gallant soldiers.
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/ 21 December 2002
As surely as night follows day, or Barrichello follows Schumacher, so the collapse of yet another England cricket tour produces a deluge of suggestions on what must be done to improve the team.
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/ 21 December 2002
There is something Ronaldo does that nobody else can do. Something quite miraculous that suggests he may be, well, not quite human. The millisecond before he scores a goal he smiles. The smile is innocent and fulfilled – almost saintly.