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It’s life, gym, but not as we know it
Posted on March 21, 2010
I have always considered health clubs with deep suspicion. It comes, I think, from living in London for most of my life. In a city, you skirt around strangers, weigh them up, acknowledge each other's physical space and avoid eye contact - and then you go and take your clothes off and sit in a big, bubbling bath with half a dozen of them, all but naked. Why?
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In northern Iraq, Kurds warn: “Beware the Arabs”
Posted on March 21, 2010
Sunni Arab Muslim politicians are using elections to push for renewed control over Kurdish-majority, oil-rich frontier lands, raising tensions with other groups.
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Introducing the Nelson tax
Posted on March 21, 2010
In the News of the World today, I propose a new tax on the rich: specifically, on ex-ministers who go on to earn a crust advising companies how to avoid the regulations with which they have saddled the British economy. I proposed this before the news broke about Byers and Hewitt etc, but their appalling story makes it all the more pertinent
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Weekend Interviews
Posted on March 21, 2010
Sophie Dahl: from model to writer to television cook
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    Iranians train Taliban to use roadside bombs
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    TALIBAN commanders have revealed that hundreds of insurgents have been trained in Iran to kill Nato forces in Afghanistan. The commanders said they had learnt to mount complex ambushes and lay improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which have been responsible for most of the deaths of British troops in Helmand province.
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    • The Teamsters, a trade union like no other
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    In its dispute with BA, Unite has consulted the infamous US transport workers' outfit. Talk about playing with the big boys
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    Whatever became of Elisabeth Fritzl?
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    Her 24-year ordeal of captivity and rape in that cellar in Amstetten is beyond belief. But Josef Fritzl's daughter is fighting back
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    'Day of Wrath' brings Russians on to the streets against Vladimir Putin
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    Nationwide protests sparked by falling living standards and demanding the prime minister's resignation have taken Kremlin by surprise
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    • US homeless want bank to foot the bill
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    Protestors took to the streets of New York demanding that one of America's biggest banks start to repay its billion dollar bailout and provide help for some of the city's homeless. Chase Manhattan bank is accused of letting hundreds of unused properties go to waste when many people don't even have a roof over their head.
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    • Today's Comments
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    Catherine Bennett: Go on. Buy yourself an It bag. It's your duty to your nation
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    Pope's apology fails to satisfy Irish sex abuse victims
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    The Pope's historic apology to victims of sex abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland fails to satisfy critics as fresh claims threaten to deepen crisis.
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    BA calls up 5,000 strike-breakers
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    BRITISH AIRWAYS is training 5,000 more staff to work as cabin crew after it claimed victory in the first round of its bitter industrial dispute yesterday.
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    "Would Madam like a nose job with her sandwich?"
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    Lunch-hour cosmetic surgery – 45-minute boob jabs, nonsurgical rhinoplasty – is booming in the UK. But nightmare stories are also on the rise. So are the treatments safe? We speak to doctors to find out, and take a front-row seat at a no-frills nose job
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    Treasury calls in Vince Cable for talks on implications of a hung parliament
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    Vince Cable has held unprecedented and detailed talks with the top official at the Treasury about the Liberal Democrats' economic policies – and declared himself willing to serve as chancellor after the next election.
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    'Pay £5,000 a day and you can meet Tony': Four top Labour MPs trapped in TV sting
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    Labour has been plunged into a cash-for-access row after three former Cabinet Ministers were secretly filmed discussing how they could help a fake lobbying company – with one boasting that he was a ‘cab for hire’ for £5,000 a day.
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