When Bernardo Provenzano was arrested in mid-April, a few people in the computer-gaming industry might have suspected Electronic Arts of having a hand in it. What better publicity for the newly released <i>The Godfather</i> game than to have the Sicilian Mafia’s "boss of bosses" arrested outside the town of Corleone?
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/ 24 November 2005
The <i>Weekly Mail</i> was the first home of the country’s best cartoonists, writes Julia Beffon.
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/ 11 November 2005
The contrast is quite remarkable. Instead of the neatness of Zurich, you have the winds of Chicago. Media coverage is also a little different. But for the Johannesburg Gay Games bid delegation, the agony of suspense in Chicago this weekend will be as intense as it was for Danny Jordaan and his soccer World Cup 2010 team in Switzerland last year.
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/ 28 October 2005
"There’s something about watching the start of a mountain bike race that makes you want to burst out laughing. There’s this mob on jumped-up BMXs, most kitted out as though they were about to hit the Champs Elysées on the last day of the Tour de France , who, when the starter gives the word, all start pedalling madly," writes Julia Beffon.
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/ 17 October 2005
For a company as usually sure-footed as Sony, it was a bit of a faux pas. The electronics giant marked a decade of PlayStation two weeks ago with full-page ads in Italian newspapers and magazines featuring a smirking young man wearing a "crown of thorns" and the legend "Ten years of Passion".
In the 560-odd years since Gutenberg’s printing presses consigned illuminated manu-scripts to museums, the written word has been replaced by an ever-accelerating kaleidoscope of media. Whether Christianity would have taken such a firm hold had St Paul used bulk e-mail and SMS to get his message to people in other lands is open to debate.
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/ 15 February 2002
Tokyo, Kafiristan, Harare and Johannesburg — lesbian film is taking on the world. Julia Beffon looks at women in this year’s gay and lesbian film festival.