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Jan 8, 2025 |
smh.com.au | David Leser
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Five years ago on a hard court in Madrid, Jordan Thompson, Australia’s then fourth-ranked player, was in a practice session with Nick Kyrgios, then Australia’s No. 2, in preparation for a Davis Cup tie.
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Dec 12, 2024 |
smh.com.au | David Leser
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Here’s a dispatch from the frontline of masculinity: I buy flowers for myself often – if not once a week, then at least once a fortnight, depending on the health of the last bunch I bought. I took up this guiltless pleasure about 12 years ago, after my marriage had ended and I’d moved back to Sydney.
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Nov 17, 2024 |
smh.com.au | David Leser
Senior freelance writer November 18, 2024 — 11.45am November 18, 2024 — 11.45am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A quarter of a century ago I wrote a story for Good Weekend magazine with the headline: “Who’s afraid of Alan Jones?”The answer was almost everyone. Of the nearly 100 people I interviewed, only a handful were prepared to be quoted by name. The rest were too scared of retribution.
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Nov 6, 2024 |
smh.com.au | David Leser
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I wrote a story recently with five f---s in it and when the story was published, sure enough, three of the four letters in each f--- had been removed. On publication, it just read as f---, not f--- with the “c”, “k” and “u” in there. It always happens.
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Oct 6, 2024 |
smh.com.au | David Leser
Senior freelance writer October 7, 2024 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Nearly 40 years ago, I stood on a street corner in Jerusalem taking a straw poll on Israeli attitudes towards nuclear weapons. My interest was sparked by the fact that in late 1986 a young Jewish scientist, Mordechai Vanunu, was abducted by Mossad agents in Rome and smuggled back to Israel in a crate. His crime?
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