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/ 9 November 2004
Barry Manilow is a little surprised to see tens of thousands of people singing along with him. "Most of the nights I look up, and there are between 10 000 and 15 000 people out there," the entertainer told <i>The Denver Post</i> in Sunday’s editions. "They can’t all be fans from the Seventies."
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/ 9 November 2004
Researchers working off coastal Georgia have discovered what could be three new species of bottom-dwelling creatures known as sea squirts. The diminutive creatures — also known as tunicates — were recently found at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary, a reef 28km east of Georgia’s Sapelo Island.
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/ 9 November 2004
New York Mercantile Exchange near-dated oil futures price has fallen below $50 per barrel and is currently trading at $49,13 per barrel, meaning that the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) monetary policy committee meeting on December 8 and 9 could once again look at a further interest rate cut.
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/ 9 November 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) soared to fresh highs on Tuesday, mainly on the back of the weaker rand. About 10 minutes after the opening bell, the all-share index surged more than 100 points, surpassing its previous record high reached on October 8 2004 of 12187,18 points.
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/ 9 November 2004
Considering that short-term insurers spend upwards of R21-billion in claims a year and R8-billion in settling motor claims alone, the scope for genuine grassroots black economic empowerment (BEE) is vast, according to Bruce Campbell, MD of Mutual & Federal.
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/ 9 November 2004
If Bush wins," the United States writer Barbara Probst Solomon claimed just before the election, "fascism is possible in the United States." Blind faith in a leader, she said, a conservative working class and the use of fear as a political weapon provide the necessary preconditions. She’s wrong. So is Richard Sennett, who described Bush’s security state as "soft fascism" in <i>The Guardian</i> last month.
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/ 9 November 2004
Microsoft said on Monday it has settled two major antitrust disputes, ending more than a decade of challenges and possibly undermining European and United States antitrust cases against the firm. Microsoft has agreed to pay -million to end the dispute over Netware with Novell, and has made peace with the hostile trade group, the Computer & Communications Industry Association.
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/ 9 November 2004
Amazon.com said that its website experienced slowdowns for much of the day on Monday but was running normally by the evening. Spokesperson Patty Smith said the world’s largest internet retailer began experiencing ”a slowness” around 8.30am (4.30pm GMT), causing problems for some customers trying to access the website or buy items.
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/ 9 November 2004
The condition of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat deteriorated overnight and he is now in a deeper coma, the spokesperson for the French army medical service said on Tuesday. A delegation of four top Palestinians was set to visit Arafat in his Paris hospital on Tuesday, overriding objections from his wife, Suha.
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/ 9 November 2004
Women from the slums in Nagpur in central India have attacked alleged rapists who they say are walking free from court, often with the connivance of the authorities. At the weekend a mob, dominated by 50 women and led by a rape victim, burnt down the houses of three alleged rapists who had reportedly attacked residents with impunity for months.