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Cloud Of Smoke: Inside Romney's Work For Big Tobacco

WASHINGTON -- As the Soviet Union splintered in the early-1990s, Sushovan Ghosh packed his colleagues into a van and chugged across the collapsing nation, hitting depressed towns and famished cities,…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8245 words)

A true horror story: The abuse of teenage boys in a detention centre

"My name's Kevin Raymond Young and I'm 52 years old." There's something desperate about the way Young says it, as if he's clinging to the wreckage of his identity. Young was 17 when he was sent to…
PUBLISHED: April 13, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4625 words)

Marilyn Monroe and Margaret Thatcher

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, impersonation is fast becoming our culture's favourite form of acting. At least since Nicole Kidman's nose won an Oscar for playing Virginia Woolf in…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 9, 2011
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2858 words)

The Saturday interview

When Vivienne Westwood was four or five, she had an epiphany. "When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 3, 2011
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1920 words)
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