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/ 21 October 2002
The spectre of an invisible sniper casually picking off innocent citizens going about their business in suburban Washington is a terrifying one. People are staying home from work, parents are keeping their children out of school.
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/ 21 October 2002
South Africa wrapped up the first Test against Bangladesh in the 10th over of play on the fourth day of the match at Buffalo Park on Monday.
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/ 21 October 2002
David McDonald’s article last week supposedly backing the Cosatu anti-privatisation strike is typical of the obfuscation around this issue, not helped by the government’s inability to sell its own programme. He rounds up the usual suspects: the World Bank, the WTO, big business, and multinationals.
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/ 21 October 2002
The gas flares from the offshore oil rigs light up the night sky over Cabinda and the orange glow silhouettes the crucifixion statue outside the Catholic mission next to the sea. Inside, members of the Catholic Youth of Cabinda are debating the future of Angola’s northernmost province.
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/ 21 October 2002
Last Friday, September 13, was a bad day for the elephants of the Sabi Sands game reserve next to the Kruger National Park. Normally placid herds charged around in apparent terror, trumpeting, shaking their heads and running with their tails stuck straight out behind them.
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/ 18 October 2002
Peter Gabriel, who recently released his new album, Up, has not spent the past decade lying on a beach, writes Nigel Williamson.
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/ 18 October 2002
The latest work by Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen focuses on SA’s mines, writes Adrian Searle.
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/ 18 October 2002
<b>Movie of the week:</b> LaBute’s <i>Possession</i> is not as rich a dish as Byatt’s, but neither is it fast food, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 18 October 2002
A literary storm has broken in Spain, where Camilo Jose Cela, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, has been accused of regularly using ghostwriters for most of his career, writes Giles Tremlett.