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/ 5 December 2006
One of the United States’s best-loved writers tells Euan Ferguson how an unlikely accident can make a likely story.
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/ 5 December 2006
Popular fascination with Ned Kelly, Australia’s iconic horse thief and bank robber, has soared since Peter Carey’s <i>True History of the Kelly Gang</i> won the Booker Prize last week. But not everyone is happy about the growth of Kellymania, writes Patrick Barkham.
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/ 5 December 2006
Now in its fifth year, this hugely successful funny-folk festival has made marvellous strides, writes Guy Willoughby.
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/ 5 December 2006
‘Stamp collecting is a passion South Africans refuse to grow out of’, writes Stephen Gray.
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/ 5 December 2006
Research in Kenya indicates that the rapid spread of HIV/Aids across Africa is linked to malaria. “We knew the relationship, but not the impact it had on the spread. Now we have a reference point,” says Ayub Manya, an epidemiologist with the Kenyan National Malaria Control Programme.
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/ 5 December 2006
The fantastical world of James Bond gets brought down to earth in <i>The Tailor of Panama</i>, and the result is funny, tense, and coldly cynical, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 5 December 2006
Accompanied by a group of unsung folk musicians, David Kramer has gone back to his roots, writes Guy Willoughby.
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/ 5 December 2006
The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez, on Monday vowed to push ahead with his self-styled socialist revolution after being re-elected by a landslide. Returns from 78% of polling stations gave the incumbent 61% of the vote from Sunday’s poll, a thumping endorsement for another six-year term at the helm of the world’s fifth-largest oil exporter.
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/ 5 December 2006
Libya detained an outspoken critic of the country’s leader Moammar Gadaffi a month ago and he has not been heard from since, United States-based Human Rights Watch said on Monday. Libya’s internal security agency detained Idrees Mohamed Boufayed, a doctor who had lived in exile in Switzerland for the past 16 years, in Tripoli on November 5.
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/ 5 December 2006
The veterans and the blonde date: Thebe Mabanga on the players who are bringing arts and culture to the fore.