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Sunday Times Magazine December 29th 2002
YEAR OF JUBILATION AND TREPIDATION – It was a year of shining celebration – and the profound gloom. The Queen’s golden jubilee was tarnished by the deaths of Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother. The euro became a real hard currency, while the dollar faltered in the wake of the Enron catastrophe.
Terrorists brought carnage to Bali. Lord Archer left prison for a party, and Myra Hindley’s 36-year stretch ended with her death. And there were long-running scandals over royal trinkets and Cherie Blair’s property deals. But shadowing everything was the prospect of that war with Irag may be inevitable
The Afghan leader Hamid Karzai honours 10th anniversary of the fall of communism in Kabul, in April: celebrations in front of the European Central Bank, Frankfurt, mark the coming of the euro in January
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