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| Kiwi war hero aiming to stay at the front line |
| "The man on the ground is the most important thing out here ... you can't win a war from far away."These are the words of New Zealand's latest war hero, British Army rifleman James McKie, who stared death in the face when he threw... |
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Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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| Astronaut continues stellar career in spotlight |
| Buzz Aldrin's not a hard man to get talking.With a formidable marketing machine behind him, he has done a fair bit recently around the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing.So it's lucky he churns through words like Apollo... |
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Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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| Rachida Dati - stilettos with a steely edge |
| It seems a little unfair to focus immediately on what Rachida Dati is wearing.This, after all, is a woman whose extraordinary rise to power has taken her from a council estate upbringing to the highest echelons of French politics.She... |
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Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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| The new potency of the F-word |
| It is 40 years since Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch hit the bookshops.When it was first published, the passionate polemic calling for the end of the oppression of women caused a sensation.Edward Candy, in The Times... |
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Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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| Last chance to escape the firing squad |
| This was diplomacy at its rawest. Behind closed doors and away from the glare of public declarations of friendship and goodwill, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd this week sat down with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to seek mercy... |
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Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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| West Bank unrest strains limits of Israel's patience |
| Ehab Barghouti would not have been at the demonstration at all if his father Asdal had had his way. Asdal found his son, 14, on the road from their village of Beit Rima and ordered him into the car. "I told him: 'You shouldn't... |
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Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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