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The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man

Target in sight: 'Our expectation was that if he was there, he would go down fighting,' said Barack Obama. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features Viewed backwards, from Osama bin Laden's hideout to the…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5505 words)

Colm Tóibín on Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers

Photograph: Bert Hardy/Hulton Archive/Getty Images One hundred and eight years ago today James Joyce and Nora Barnacle went out walking together for the first time. "Bloomsday", the day on which the…
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3769 words)
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