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/ 5 December 2007
Celebrity political endorsements do not get much bigger than Oprah Winfrey’s. But political experts say it is doubtful the popular United States talk-show host can sway votes to fellow Chicagoan and first-term Illinois Senator Barack Obama in the way she persuades viewers to turn books into instant bestsellers.
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/ 28 November 2007
Oprah Winfrey has met with the family of the first pupil to complain of abuse at her elite school for disadvantaged South African girls, and invited the girl to return to the academy. The United States magazine People quoted the father of the pupil as saying they met for two hours with Winfrey on Sunday.
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/ 25 November 2007
Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama once electrified the United States by preaching a ”politics of hope”. Unfortunately Obama then found himself outsmarted and outfought by his chief rival, Senator Hillary Clinton. Now Obama has, in effect, relaunched his campaign, coming out fighting against Clinton.
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/ 5 November 2007
United States television magnate Oprah Winfrey said on Monday that abuse charges at her all-girl academy in Johannesburg was one of the most devastating experiences in her life. ”This has been one of the most devastating, if not the most devastating, experiences of my life,” she said in a video news conference from Chicago.
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/ 3 November 2007
About 1 700 people asked to be reimbursed for buying James Frey’s largely fabricated best-selling memoir, A Million Little Pieces, a lawyer said as a judge approved a settlement with disgruntled readers. United States District Judge Richard Holwell said on Friday that the settlement was ”most fair, adequate and reasonable”.
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/ 31 October 2007
South African police are investigating alleged abuses at billionaire United States television magnate Oprah Winfrey’s all-girl leadership academy, a police spokesperson said on Wednesday. Rapport newspaper has reported a matron at the school allegedly fondled one of the pupils, and grabbed a girl by the throat and threw her against a wall.
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/ 22 October 2007
”Tell me, why this nasty war?” asks a character in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Almost 140 years after first publication of the epic novel, a nasty duel has broken out between rival versions of the weighty tome published in the United States. The argument between the two new translations is, fittingly, one of weight.
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/ 18 October 2007
A dormitory parent at Oprah Winfrey’s school has been suspended for misconduct, the school announced on Wednesday. The school said the person had been ”removed” from the campus and immediate action had been taken to ensure the safety and well-being of the pupils.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Robin Williams’s latest film,<i>The Night Listener</i> makes for engrossing viewing, especially as it gets increasingly noir in flavour, writes Shaun de Waal.