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/ 23 November 2005
In an article published in The New York Times recently, columnist Maureen Dowd has written the definitive precis of new-wave misogyny. The piece, taken from her new book Are Men Necessary?, appears to be addressing the fact that we’re all in ”a muddle in the boardroom, the bedroom and the situation room”.
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/ 23 November 2005
In a landmark ruling that opens the way for compensation claims against oil conglomerates, the High Court of Benin City in Nigeria has declared the flaring of natural gas illegal. Justice CV Nwokorie ruled that toxic flares that burn off natural gases, a by-product of oil extraction, contravened provisions of the Nigerian Constitution that guarantee citizens the right to life and human dignity.
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/ 22 November 2005
Fifteen people were killed and 25 wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a marketplace in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said. Police rushed to the market after a small bomb exploded there. A suicide bomber then drove in at speed, ramming a police car with his vehicle and setting off a large explosion.
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/ 22 November 2005
”Dirty bomb” suspect Jose Padilla, a United States citizen held without charges for more than three years, faces charges of conspiring to ”murder, kidnap and maim persons” overseas, under an indictment unsealed on Tuesday. A grand jury in Miami returned the indictment against Padilla and four others.
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/ 22 November 2005
The conflict in the African National Congress is not between a populist camp and a technocratic and aloof elite, according to United Democratic Movement president Bantu Holomisa. ”This is hogwash,” Holomisa writes in a discussion document being circulated to party structures ahead of the party’s national congress next month.
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/ 22 November 2005
The Tshwane metropolitan council would not commit itself on Tuesday to removing all forms of advertising proclaiming Tshwane rather than Pretoria as South Africa’s capital. Such advertisements have been found to be misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority — a ruling the council said it respects.
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/ 22 November 2005
Football legend George Best remained seriously ill in a London hospital on Tuesday but was partly conscious and responding to some stimulus, his doctor told reporters. ”He’s alive and his brain is working and he’s partly conscious, so we’re going to go on with all the treatment,” said Professor Roger Williams.
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/ 22 November 2005
Link Wray, the legendary United States guitarist who was a pioneering, if often under-appreciated, figure in rock’n’roll, has died aged 76 at his home in Copenhagen, according to his official website. Wray was once named by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
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/ 22 November 2005
A pair of lucky turkeys will receive the traditional Thanksgiving pardon from President George Bush on the White House lawn on Tuesday and then fly — in style, mind you — to Disneyland. They will be part of Disneyland’s holiday display and serve as honorary grand marshals for the theme park’s annual Thanksgiving-Day Parade.