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Google News: Billionaire politicians: if you can't buy a country, what is money good for?
[Daily Maverick] - By RICHARD POPLAK. There's Sebastian Pinera, $2.4-billion in the bank, who gets to run Chile. There's Najib Mikati, worth $3-billion, and prime pinister of Lebanon. He follows Said Hariri, $1.7-billion, whose even richer father once ran Lebanon, too.
Google News: Caving in to the ancient idiocy of the 'Paleo diet'
[Daily Maverick] - By RICHARD POPLAK. Let's get this straight, Fancy American Doctor: South Africans own the caveman. Sorry, caveperson. Just west of Johannesburg, our hirsute ancestors hunted and gathered. If that historical précis sounds a tad short, count me among the
Google News: Behind the beautiful forevers: life, death and hope in a Mumbai undercity
[Daily Maverick] - Everything, writes RICHARD POPLAK. In The Road to Wigan Pier, that nightmare ramble through the slums and slag-heaps of northern England, George Orwell gathered every last cliché concerning poverty in England and ditched them like the contents of a
Google News: Un-Cheney my heart: more proof evil never dies
[Daily Maverick] - RICHARD POPLAK ponders the exigencies of keeping the devil alive. In 1967, a dashing South African doctor named Christiaan Barnard put Denise Darvall's heart into Louis Washkansky's chest. The undertaking was officially known as a "heart transplant"
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