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- Don Brash's election as leader of the National Party is the centre-right's last chance to make an early return to power. |
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- Economic liberalism should be the flipside of pluralism. In mainland China it is not -- despite the fine words and gladhanding during President Hu Jintao's state visit here last week. |
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- How much is the prime minister's job worth? |
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- According to a small (505 respondent) One News/Colmar Brunton poll, Don Brash is being well received as the new party leader by National Party members. |
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- Failed education company Carich Training Centre overstated student numbers three times, was overpaid $3.266 million in taxpayer money and may owe well more than $1 million to education authorities. |
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- People feel personally better off financially today than they have when questioned over the past six years, a new National Business Review-Phillips Fox poll has found. |
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- It is hard to make head or tail of the Ministry of Health contracts for anti-smoking education. They seem to be written in a hybrid new language half Maori, half English, kind of "Manglish." |
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- Over the past few years, economic growth has seemed pretty good to most New Zealanders. We've been doing better than most of the rest of the world, and that always makes us feel smug. But we should not be feeling at all complacent. Let me put the numbers in perspective. |
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- President George W Bush is reputed not to like travelling outside the US. Nevertheless, his tour of East Asian countries and Australia is the most extensive undertaken in Asia by a US president since the Vietnam War. |
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- Sky Television subscribers will have to go without their CNBC Asia channel from next month but the company's shareholders might be less willing to part with their shares. |
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- Confidence in residential property has soared to its highest level in five years, but economists are questioning the market's resilience. |
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- The opening of The Pre-Raphaelite Dream at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery last week went off with a big bang. As the rain cleared after the opening formalities, a spectacular fireworks display erupted from the top of the Dunedin Civic Centre and the 700 invited guests spilled out of the gallery into the Octagon. |
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- The just-released programme for the three-week New Zealand International Arts Festival in Wellington next year includes its usual of mix traditional and experimental performances. |
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- The Arts Foundation of New Zealand announced the recipients of the 2003 Laureate Awards Thursday night at a special ceremony at the James Hay Theatre, Christchurch: poet Jenny Bornholdt, sculptor Neil Dawson, furniture maker Humphrey Ikin, composer John Psathas and writer-actor-director Michael Hurst. |
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- On a surprise two day tour of Afghanistan, Prime Minister Helen Clark has met with President Hamid Karzai over dinner. |
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- The building boom is continuing unabated, with September recording 2,989 new dwelling unit consents -- the highest number of consents issued in a September month since 1973. |
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- Yes, indeed it's true yourmom.com now has her very own set of RSS feeds! I'm sure you'll sleep better with this wonderful news. In fact, there's more! Your mom even comes in Atom 0. |
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- From: Cellular-News - Oct 30, 2003 Vodafone UK has announced the launch of the Communications Support Directory via its Find & Seek service. The directory has been designed with deaf and hard of hearing customers in mind, but is also... |
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- Mestre Nelson Sargento discute em artigo a transformaes dos ritmos nacionais, do Carnaval e pergunta: pra onde vo os sambas-enredo? [http://www. samba-choro. |
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- This hint has worked fine since 10.0, so I was surprised that it wasn't on this site. You can make the items in your dock slightly transparent when they are hidden, so you have a visual cue that they aren't active. Just go in... |
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- Author Greg Smith's list of 10 horror movies you might not have seen: - "Blow Out," 1981 - "Candyman," 1992 - "Evil Dead 2," 1987 - "Wes Craven's New Nightmare," 1994 - "The Legend of Hell House," 1973 - "The Uninvited," 1944 - "Paperhouse," 1988 - "The Witches," 1990 - "The Fly," 1986 - "Dead Ringers," 1988 |
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- The NEC ND-1300A 4x DVD+RW/DVD-RW EIDE drive with beige bezel now costs $114 at LiveWarehouse. With free shipping, it's the best total price we know...(more) |
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- The NEC ND-1300A 4x DVD+RW/DVD-RW EIDE drive with beige bezel now costs $114 at LiveWarehouse. With free shipping, it's the best total price we know...(more) |
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- chaos continues in Iraq; conditions are so bad that in Baghdad parents are not sending children to school, this is BushProgress washingtonpost.com: One U.S. |
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- From: WBBM, IL - Oct 30, 2003 (CBS 2) You've probably been to haunted houses before, but chances are you've never seen one like this. Imagine a haunted house created specifically for deaf children. It was designed by the mayor's... |
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- We want the Bush White House to have the scariest Halloween ever, so we've brought back the "bats" -- but not the kind for swinging. These are the bats that come out at night, and they're going to scare George... |
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- British Airways' seven Concordes, which were retired last week after 27 years of commercial service, are to go on display - including one in New York and one in Seattle, the airline said Thursday. |
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- With Michael Howard poised to snatch the Tory leadership, it's timely to note that my SO (whose pidgin English is much better than my appalling Spanish) knows Howard -- after his evasive performance on Newsnight when Jeremy Paxman asked the same question |
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- Usability News- Jupiter Research analysis suggests that US men will continue to outspend women individually, but since there are more female online purchasers in the States, women will account for more than half the total ecommerce revenue. [Newsability] |
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- Mac Supercomputer Just Got Faster. The first supercomputer made from a cluster of Macs is on track to become the world's third-fastest machine, according to the latest test results. Leander Kahney reports from the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference in Santa Clara, California. [Wired News] |
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- Women scientists 'worse off'. A survey of university scientists finds women feel they are disadvantaged in comparison with male colleagues. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] |
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- Autumn Days The Botanics is a joy to walk through when returning to my car after work. This is what it looks like at the moment. Glasgow, 2002 |
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- Most laddish news title for the day (not froma red top of course) Informatics UK goes titsup. Retreat [The Register] |
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- Bling bling Nelly's jewels have been stolen. Not those, the distinctly sparkly variety. £ |
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- All I can say is check out the Network Preference Pane and go to Network Port Configurations. [robg adds: And I'll add a bit more ... click on New, and you can then select "Built-in FireWire" and add it to use IP over FireWi... |
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