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/ 18 December 2006
This stark advertisement recently netted a Young Creatives award for the Net#Work ad agency’s Graeme Jenner and Paulo Grippa at the Cannes-Lions advertising awards. Pitted against young advertising executives from around the world, the two chose this simple curriculum vitae idea to convey the message that the rapid smashing of the child labour system may […]
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/ 18 December 2006
A holiday in Jo’burg? Sure, there’s no better way to escape the beach-bound crowds, reports Justin Pearce.
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/ 18 December 2006
The leader of the biggest Christian faction in Lebanon, General Michel Aoun, who has formed an alliance with the militant Shia group, Hizbullah, said their opposition movement was prepared to set up their own national unity administration if the Western-backed government of Fouad Siniora did not bow to their demands.
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/ 18 December 2006
Humphrey Tyler on beach fashion this year: knitted bikinis, ponytails (men only) and bicycles.
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/ 18 December 2006
The divergent experiences of two United States military units in the first year of the invasion of Iraq hold lessons for countering terrorism in Africa. In 2003, the northern city of Mosul had all the ingredients for a potential insurgency: it was home to the Iraqi Islamic Party as well as to more than 100 000 disbanded and unemployed former Iraqi army soldiers and sympathetic Kurdish militias.
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/ 18 December 2006
Sporting a beige jacket, starched pink shirt and polished shoes, Haider looks like any other young businessman about town, not a sly gunrunner who wheels and deals in Iraq’s burgeoning arms trade. Yet with the country sucked into sectarian warfare and the classic laws of the marketplace clicking into gear, traders like Haider are making a highly illegal killing.
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/ 18 December 2006
Britain’s top female biathlete, Emma Fowler, is in Hochfilzen, Austria, for the second biathlon World Cup event of the year. But outside her hotel, the sun is beating down and her competitors are wandering around in T-shirts. "It’s a bit weird," she says. "We’re used to wearing thermals and Lycra, but when the temperature hits 10°C, you just want to strip off."
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/ 18 December 2006
A casual visitor to the drab committee room in the British Parliament building where the fate of General Augusto Pinochet was decided during five weeks in 1998 and 1999 might have been excused for missing the case’s historical significance. The law lords in business suits sat in front of robed and wigged barristers.
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/ 18 December 2006
Gaye Davis advises on the Cape Town that lies outside the tourist traps
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/ 18 December 2006
It isn’t a professional way to approach an interview, but before I meet Alex Tew I remind myself that I mustn’t like him. He is the 22-year-old who took the world wide web by storm last year with his Million Dollar Homepage. This simple idea, which saw Tew selling tiny slices of advertising space on a site that everyone suddenly wanted to visit, made him more than $1-million in less than four months, writes Steve Boggan.