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/ 22 October 2004
Amsterdam’s luxurious Amstel hotel — a favorite with visiting rock stars and dignitaries — was evacuated after a dangerous bacteria was detected in the water, the hotel said Friday. A routine health inspection on Thursday uncovered the bacteria that causes legionnaires’ disease, the hotel said in a statement.
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/ 22 October 2004
Four members of the banned Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) have been sentenced to death for mass murder committed in Ethiopia in 1992, reports said on Friday. The killings were committed weeks after the OLF left the then Ethiopian transitional government in July 1992 over policy differences.
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/ 22 October 2004
Co-curator and editor Sophie Perryer reports on an exhibition that celebrates the freedom of artists to pursue personal and individual concerns in the post-apartheid era.
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/ 22 October 2004
Whoever wins the United States election, nuance has become a no-no this year, bludgeoned by campaign attack ads and each side’s distortion of the other’s positions. Nuance, a trait most often associated with John Kerry and rarely with President George Bush, now is taken to mean flip-flop, wishy-washiness or appeasement.
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/ 22 October 2004
Adverse weather conditions continued to delay the start of oil-transfer operations from the BBC China, the cargo vessel stranded off the Eastern Cape Coast, authorities said on Friday. The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism said the ship has about 120 tonnes of oil on board.
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/ 22 October 2004
Below-normal rainfall is likely until February next year, Rand Water said on Friday. It said the Vaal Dam is 37% full. Under normal conditions, a 37% water level would not be a problem. The South African Weather Service, however, has warned that rainfall will be below average over the next four months.
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/ 22 October 2004
Kenya pulled off what some might view as an unexpected feat this week by improving its standing in Transparency International’s annual corruption perceptions index. Every year, the Berlin-based NGO ranks several countries according to the levels of corruption that are perceived to exist in their public sectors.
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/ 22 October 2004
Ahmed Kathrada’s <i>Memoirs</i> is a tribute to decency and the desire for justice that drove a generation of activists, the likes of whom we shall probably not see again, writes Anthony Egan.
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/ 22 October 2004
<b>NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> What a weird movie. <i>The Forgotten</i> starts out as a heartbreaking melodrama, then morphs into an FBI-conspiracy/cop thriller, becomes an outsiders-on-the-run road movie, before suddenly going all <i>X-Files</i>, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 22 October 2004
While examining the dynamics of marriages and parent-child relationships, Maja Kriel skilfully evokes the lives of three generations of a South African Jewish family. Jane Rosenthal reviews.