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Greater than Gatsby?
Published: 8th Mar 2013
LEONARDO Di Caprio’s recent movie, “The Great Gatsby”, is set in New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of wild living, jazz parties, and shady business dealings making a lot of money.
Mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, played by Di Caprio, is a man following a dream. Gatsby has devoted his life to the pursuit of wealth. But for...
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Tax fat cats
Published: 22nd Feb 2013
AT MIDDAY dozens of protesters who’d been waiting quietly inside the store stood up, unfurled their banners and leaflets and began chanting “Starbucks – pay your taxes! Starbucks sucks money from the UK! Boycott Starbucks – tell your friends!”
This demonstration was just one recent example of anger being expressed against greedy companies...
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Royal baby buzz
Published: 12th Feb 2013
BY NOW surely no one on earth doesn't know that William and Kate, the Royal couple, are expecting their first child.
Or is it twins? And will it be a boy or a girl? Everybody is guessing! Those who don’t like all the baby talk in the news are in for a rough nine months – and beyond.
As with William and Kate’s wedding, this...
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Shocked student met God on bus
Published: 29th Jan 2013
“POWER like electricity flowed through me from head to toe. My hair stood on end and I shouted ‘Yes! It’s true!”
19-year-old Laurence Cooper’s conversion experience, on a bus, was nothing if not dramatic.
Drama wasn’t new to Laurence – though he insists that shouting on buses was not a habit (“I knew my social Ps and Qs”). He...
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"Remember me"
Published: 29th Jan 2013
YOU’VE SEEN them by the side of roads: flowers, plaques and markers. Often taped badly to traffic lights and to fence posts. Ragged, faded old bunches, or bright fresh wreaths. Imperishable plastic poppies.
They speak of grief, these roadside memorials of all kinds and colours.
In the 1940s, the Arizona State Highway Patrol began using white crosses to mark...
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