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/ 28 November 1997
Dan Glaister Innovation You are a concert pianist. You sit at your piano, carefully building up the tension in the hall as you deliver your definitive version of one of the core pieces of the classical repertoire. You approach the climax, playing pianissimo as you prepare for the shock of the fortissimo ending. Suddenly there […]
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/ 28 November 1997
FRIDAY, 8.45AM: SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallett is aware that South Africa are facing the strongest challenge in their European tour when they meet England at Twickenham on Saturday. He said their 52-10 win over France last weekend means nothing now. “When one side plays so well you have to take the opposition into account. The […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Andrew Spencer : Golf There is something very special about the Nedbank Million Dollar Challenge at Sun City. Perhaps it is the size of the seven- figure purse – in American money nogal – or the simple fact that this is an elite field on an elite layout carved out of a slice of unremitting […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Andy Duffy The president’s office is paving the way for Nelson Mandela to break his promise to South Africa that no teachers would be kicked out of their jobs. Department of Education officials and teaching unions both view the president’s promise, made last year, as binding and a key political obstacle to dismissing state teachers. […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Richard Williams : Motor Racing Formula One is a world of clever people, and Bernie Ecclestone is the cleverest of them all. His unprepossessing title is vice-president in charge of promotional affairs for the Fdration Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the sport’s worldwide governing body. What he actually does is run Grand Prix racing. He is […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Original Evergreen have meshed their hip- hop sounds with a bit of jungle and a bit of jazz for their new album, writes Greg Bowes The dopest hip-hop crew in the country are back – and this time they’ve recruited a few friends from further afield, culturally and musically, for an ambitious take on electro-African […]
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/ 28 November 1997
office Chris McGreal in Kinshasa Beyond the grave, and from his own bedroom, Mobutu Sese Seko is being pursued. Investigators, tracking down billions of rands of cash and property that were plundered by the late Zairean ruler and his cronies, have installed themselves in one of their early finds – a house Mobutu gave to […]
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/ 28 November 1997
FRIDAY, 3.30PM A POLICEMAN has been arrested for selling stolen goods believed to belong to murdered Newcastle farmers Nicholas and Magda Marais. The policeman appears to have arrested a suspect in connection with the murders, then freed him and tried to sell the stolen goods. Meanwhile in Pretoria, Freedom Front leader Constandt Viljoen organised a […]
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/ 28 November 1997
contempt Tim Jackson Gradually, the view took shape at Intel in the mid-1980s that the guys at Microsoft simply didn’t care that their programmes ran very slowly on Intel processors. Intel set up a team of three or four people inside the group developing its 386 microprocessor, and gave them the job of making sure […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Karlin Lillington asks why we should read a book from cover to cover when it’s possible to dip in and out Now read on – or back, or sideways, or anywhere. Welcome to the world of hypertext fiction, the latest genre to win critical acclaim. “There is no simple way to say this.” The opening […]