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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
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.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=125192">Wife locks horns with leadership</a>
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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
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
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.
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/ 9 November 2004
South African IT entrepreneur and the world’s first "Afronaut" Mark Shuttleworth takes ten tough ones from the <i>M&G Online</i>.
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/ 9 November 2004
The timing of Operation Phantom Fury was dictated by two elections. Washington had vetoed an attack while the United States election was under way, not wanting to create a bloody backdrop to the campaign. But with George Bush’s re-election, the administration’s attention turned swiftly to the polls being planned across Iraq at the end of January.
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/ 9 November 2004
The Department of Home Affairs on Tuesday disputed reports that 10 000 identity documents were stolen from its offices in Lebowakgomo in Limpopo, saying it was ”less than 1 000”. Thieves broke into the Department of Home Affairs office last Thursday night and stole the IDs.
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Following Monday’s announcement that a black economic empowerment (BEE) consortium had concluded an agreement to acquire the remaining 15,1% interest held by Thintana Communications in Telkom, the South African telecommunications giant on Tuesday said it welcomed the new strategic shareholder.
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A suburban school board in the United States found itself in court on Monday after it tried to placate Christian fundamentalist parents by placing a sticker on its science textbooks saying evolution was ”a theory, not a fact”. Atlanta’s Cobb County school board, the second largest board in Georgia, added the sticker two years ago after a 2Â 300-strong petition attacked the presentation of ”Darwinism unchallenged”.