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Gerry Anderson: How Chinese fireworks dazzled watching world
Lin Miaoke mimes her way through the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics
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Gerry Anderson: It’s all going up in smoke
Saturday, 9 August 2008
This week, a bearded man stood up to be counted. Like many a native of this
island before him, his stand was noble as it was hopeless. His bravery ranks
with that of the lone Chinese student who stood, shopping bag in hand, in
front of a bristling army tank in the friendless vastness of Tianenmen
Square all those years ago, before the onset of Olympics made everything all
right.
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Why women enjoy singles nights more than men
Saturday, 2 August 2008
Last week, a Belfast cinema cancelled its first singles night due to lack of
interest from certain quarters.
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Gerry Anderson: Those terrific factory girls and their lazy, useless men
Saturday, 19 July 2008
I read an interesting article the other day about female employment in Derry
in 1939. It seems that over 15,000 local women and girls enjoyed full-time
employment in the business of making shirts whereas there was no work at all
for the men.
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.U2 Album Poll
U2's best album - here's your chance to vote
U2's best album - here's your chance to vote
| No Line On The Horizon |
 2% |
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 3% |
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5% |
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1% |
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2% |
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19% |
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8% |
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49% |
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4% |
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6% |
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