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/ 18 September 2005
Stanley Burnshaw, a publisher and literary critic who edited the works of his friend Robert Frost, died on Friday on Martha’s Vineyard in the United States. He was 99. Burnshaw, whose literary career spanned more than seven decades, also won critical acclaim for his own poems and books.
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/ 18 September 2005
A computer-savvy Australian MP wants the government to stop being the nation’s biggest junk-mailer and become its biggest spammer instead. Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull wants every Australian to be given an e-mail address that would last them from the cradle to the grave.
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/ 18 September 2005
The success story of Apple’s iPod music player has impressed the whole sector. The Californian computer manufacturer has sold 22-million iPods since 2001, including 6,2-million of the music players in the last business quarter, corresponding to about 70% of the worldwide market.
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/ 18 September 2005
Delegates were engaged in last-ditch wrangling on Sunday over a proposed joint document aimed at breaking the deadlock in North Korean nuclear talks, but there was no sign of any compromise, and discussions will go into a seventh day. Failure to reach an agreement could force Washington to take the issue to the United Nations Security Council.
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/ 18 September 2005
A South African Cabinet minister has criticised the administration of United States President George Bush, saying its response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina was too slow. Essop Pahad, Minister in the Presidency, said the Bush administration ”failed in its leadership to help avert the devastating impact of the hurricane”.
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/ 18 September 2005
It will take a number of days to identify the cause of the blaze that gutted the offices of media group Caxton in Johannesburg on Friday night, an emergency-services spokesperson said on Saturday. Malcolm Midgley said police forensic experts will have to photograph the scene and investigate.
Mahlangu was 22 years old when he was hanged by the apartheid government in 1979.
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/ 18 September 2005
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) on Saturday suspended its deputy president, Reuben Mohlaloga, over remarks he made disowning the organisation’s decision over the ”two centres of power” debate. The ANCYL national executive committee referred the matter to the national disciplinary committee.
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/ 18 September 2005
It is not yet conclusive that the source of the typhoid outbreak in Delmas was the town’s water, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry said on Saturday. Karin Bosman, the department’s director of water-resource protection and waste, said tests run so far have not shown any presence of the bacteria.
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/ 18 September 2005
Zimbabwe must radically overhaul its land-reform policy to revive the economy and retain membership in the International Monetary Fund, which has given it six months grace from threatened expulsion, analysts say. The Southern African nation, in the throes of economic turmoil, faces a bleak future.