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My mother, my monster REALITY TV: A phenomenon whose lure I had resisted until late last year when, in my search for shows... By Sydney Smith
My three beggars LATELY I'VE BEEN haggling over money with Terry. I tell him that I'm quite prepared to give him one... By Louis Nowra
One day in Dili I WAS NERVOUS and sweating and my stomach was churning. I couldn't help babbling out stupid questions. "So what... By Geoff Thompson
Magic and me MANY THINGS CHANGED changed for me on November 7, 1991. I was ten and watching Magic Johnson speak at... By Martin McKenzie-Murray
Three months in Baghdad AUGUST 31, 2003: After three and a half years of attempting Mission Impossible – post-war reconstruction to build pluralist... By Tony Preston-Stanley
Friend for all times IT WAS THE summer of 1969. I had just scraped through my first year at the University of Belgrade.... By Nikola Gurovic
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Something for the weekend WHEN FORMULA ONE ‘supremo' Max Mosley successfully sued Britain's News of the World (NoW) for its invasion of his ‘privacy' in... By Tony Barrell (dec.)