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[Edition 20] LONDON, Wednesday: The Australian feminist academic Germaine Greer was assaulted and held hostage in her Essex home over Easter. Greer was allegedly chained to the sink by her assailant and forced to rinse a large number of plates.
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[Edition 20] SYDNEY, Wednesday: Amid harsh criticism of the US government's para-military raid to retrieve Elian Gonzalez from his Cuban-American relatives, the NSW Department of Community Services has come out in support of the US government's approach. |
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[Edition 20] NEWCASTLE, Wednesday: Impulse Airlines, the second new entrant to the intercity airline war has been forced to concede that anything may in fact happen on its flights. |
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[Edition 20] CANBERRA, Wednesday: The Federal Government has released a controversial training package that tells its heads of Department to lie, stall for time, make false demands and feign ignorance. |
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[Edition 20] In a desperate attempt to restore its reputation, a spokesman for Qantas has claimed that the Rain Man "no longer represents majority opinion in the autistic community". |
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[Edition 20] Microsoft today announced it will break up, despite a wildly successful relationship that has lasted 24 years. "The time has come see other operating systems, and that, like so many things, was really incompatible with Windows," Bill Gates said. |
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[Edition 20] MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Following the dismissal of 27 Telstra employees last week for downloading hardcore pornography on their work computers, Ralph magazine sacked five employees yesterday for downloading positive images of women. |
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[Edition 20] MOSCOW, Tuesday: The new President of Russia has made good his promise of being a "strong leader in the traditional Russian mould" by downing three bottles of vodka and speaking incoherently to foreign diplomats. |
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[Edition 20] Ethiopia is stuck in a cycle of drought, the former Yugoloslavia has been waging the same war for the past 800 years and there seems no end in sight. Which is why many commentators are turning to an ancient Chinese art to explain why some countries seem to have all the luck. |
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