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Abduction of innocents: in conflict-torn areas in East Africa, children are stolen in the night and forced into slavery in rebel camps. In the second of The children come at dusk. Some of them have walked for hours. They arrive barefoot, in clothes dusty and torn. At first there are only a few of them ......(Continue Reading) My Shot : Pete Dye Overtip the ice-cream girl. Feel free to dress badly. And whatever you do, don't wrestle Babe Zaharias. A few tips from an American Age 76, golf course designer, Delray Beach, Fla. A good designer makes sure the cartpath runs along the right-hand side of the women's tee. Ladies don't like showing their behinds to the rest of t...(Continue Reading)Ragbag of randomness: twenty years of theatrical deconstruction leave Michael Coveney in two minds about the stunts of Forced Entertainment An out-of-control rock singer stomps up and down, pouring water over her head. Two clowns consider the universe. A girl in a gorilla suit hopes we are ......(Continue Reading)Living doll: Rachel Cooke on Sindy's make-overs as she celebrates her 40th birthday In the late 1970s, my parents, who had already been divorced for several years, decided to fight a custody battle over me and my younger brother. This ......(Continue Reading)Wrong from head to toe: a ridiculous and ominous decision in Britain IN the long annals of judicial stupidity, there can rarely have been a more idiotic judgment than that recently given by Lord Justice Brooke of the British Court of Appeal. It reads like the suicid...(Continue Reading)
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