TENNIS Nicholas Wood in Split Goran Ivanisevic brought Split to a halt on Tuesday. Just over 24 hours after claiming the Wimbledon title, the rank outsider went home to a welcome never seen before in Croatia. A crowd estimated at 150 000 thronged the port as the new champion entered the port by boat, accompanied […]

Paul Christelis is a South African writer living in London. His first novel, Rabbit Season, is published this week by M&GBooks/comPress. Here we excerpt a childhood flashback The doctor searches all over me, with a magnifying glass, a stethoscope and a small cold hammer. “Now tell me what this feels like?” and he jabs me. […]

A SECOND LOOK Sean Jacobs and Judith February The recent events at Bredell near Kempton Park illustrate citizens’ growing impatience with the government’s failure to deliver more speedily. The government faces similar challenges of delivery of other basic services such as water, electricity and sewerage. Because of a lack of resources, one of the ways […]

Bearshare is one of the most popular P2P products and captures some of Napster’s community spirit. There is little option to define your search and its search engine is slow. The majority of attempted downloads failed. www.bearshare.com LimeWire is the second most popular. The interface allows multiple simultaneous searches. Download options such as minimum speed […]

CD of the week Lisa Ekdahl:Lisa Ekdahl Sings Salvadore Poe Matthew Krouse Lisa Ekdahl has to be the cutest chipmunk in jazz. And Salvadore Poe, her chipmunk buddy, has written a whole lot of bossa nova for the two of them that will knock your socks off. Ekdahl is something of a mega pop star […]