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Monthly Archives: February 2002

February 28, 2002 | Language, Literature & Linguistics

Goodbye to the Last of the Great Men

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I grew up listening to the comedy of Spike Milligan, which not only influenced and shaped my sense of humour,...

February 27, 2002 | Politics

I, Spy

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Justice, it seems, is worth around $60,000 per person. In a case that has been dragging on for a decade,...

February 27, 2002 | Politics

George Orwell and the Office of Strategic Influence

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Sometimes truth becomes so much stranger than fiction, it hurts. The Pentagon’s short-lived “Office of Strategic Influence” is a Ministry…

February 27, 2002 | Erotica

I Love My Car

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Sometimes the educational value of the Internet cannot be over-estimated. In “Dekhyr Dragon’s Guide to Sex with Cars”, the automotive…

February 25, 2002 | Politics

The End of an Age of Enlightenment

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The Bush administration’s continuing clampdown on publicly available scientific information should worry any scientist or proponent of free speech. White…

February 25, 2002 | Politics, Science & Technology

The Voice of (T)Reason

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Last week, fundamentalist fanatic Osama bin Laden said that all believers should unite in defence of God, fighting the Satanic…

February 24, 2002 | South Africa

‘Racist strung me up from a tree’

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Bellville police are investigating a suspected racist assault in which a white man is alleged to have set a dog…

February 24, 2002 | South Africa

Cops arrest teen after his mother raped

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An 18-year-old youth was arrested for allegedly raping his mother on Sunday morning in Mbahe, Thohoyandou, Limpopo police said. Captain…

February 23, 2002 | Politics

European Nazis Call Kettle Black

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Under a proposal drafted by the Council of Europe, disseminating (poorly defined) “racist or xenophobic content” over the Internet could…

February 23, 2002 | General Geek Culture

Lego Geeks

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The creators of FoundryDX explain that theirs is “a webspace that celebrates the creation of models using the medium of…

February 22, 2002 | South Africa

Popcru’s jail plan ended in murders – witness

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A top prison official told the Jali Commission of Inquiry how a plan called Operation Quiet Storm – intended to…

February 21, 2002 | South Africa

Farm robbers kill visiting son in sleep

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A 29-year-old man, who was visiting his mother and stepfather at Bishopstowe near Pietermaritzburg after living in America for some…

February 21, 2002 | South Africa

Man’s roadside relief stop proves fatal

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Another KwaZulu-Natal motorist was killed after he stopped to relieve himself on Wednesday, police said on Thursday. www.iol.co.za

February 21, 2002 | South Africa

Rainbow nation still blighted by the colour bar

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Apartheid lives on in the mindsets of South Africans – especially in those of the coloureds, observes Toni Hassan. www.smh.com.au

February 18, 2002 | Language, Literature & Linguistics

Book-A-Minute SF/F

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From the oldie-but-goodie department: become incredibly well read in science fiction and fantasy in a matter of minutes by cruising…