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The weekend’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
Auckland, Wednesday 20th April, 2005: The recent death of Pope John Paul II, as well as the Easter festivities, has
resulted in a surge of interest online. While much of this interest has a religious flavour, Easter also propelled the
popularity of ...
The State Services Commissioner, Mark Prebble, today released a copy of the letter he has sent today to all State sector
chief executives regarding the appropriate use of Internet and email by their staff.
Scoop's Selwyn Manning reports from Gallipoli that Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard will be boycotting an official
ANZAC Day New Zealand ceremony at Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli, preferring instead to attend a barbeque on the shores of ANZAC
Cove.
If Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's involvement with the Hitler Youth and his stonewalling of the pedophile priests' scandal
aren't enough to disqualify him from becoming pope, what would?
So now we (the ‘we’ in this case is most problematic) have a new pope whose diffident exterior masks a doctrinaire
interior. The Catholic Church could have embraced worldwide ecumenism. Instead it is, in Pope Benedict XVI, reasserting
its medieval claim to ...
Just fifteen years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, a massive movement for democracy and freedom has emerged in
China and its momentum is shocking the world. In last five months, over one million people have publicly renounced their
membership ...
It’s back, Scoop's 'A week of it' column, not by any popular demand but just for the sheer flippin' heck of it. Due to
the sheer soporific nature of the Parliamentary year this irregular Scoop column went away. It’s hard to type a column
when one has ...
How does the United States measure up against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? This, the first of a two part
series, assesses US performance in relation to Articles 1 to 15 of the UDHR.
Photo-Essay: Scoop's Selwyn Manning is in Gallipoli attending the 90th commemorations of the World War I battlefield
where over two thousand New Zealanders were killed.
Revelations about torture of political prisoners held in US prisons in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Iraq and the
lower fifty have sparked debate about what is permissible in grey area, irregular conflicts such as the fight against
Islamicist ...
Last month I told you about the lunacy of costs imposed on plumbers and drain layers due to Health Ministry initiated
licensing. This prompted a lunacy sighting from a dentist who last year had to register his orthodontic assistants (also
known as ...
NEW ZEALAND CINEMA INDUSTRY HEATS UP WITH PREMIERE OF STAR WARS EPISODE 3: Revenge of the Sith
Scoop Co-Editor Selwyn Manning sent in the following snapshots from Dubai where the New Zealand Air Force Boeing 757,
currently en-route for Gallipoli Turkey, had a stopover last night. The Air Force mission is carrying a group of
veterans, as well ...
In a special session on Wednesday, Ecuador’s congress voted unanimously to remove President Lucio Gutiérrez from office,
passing the leadership baton to Vice President Alfredo Palacio, who conceivably will have the proper vision to get the
job done.
The Green Party’s talented team of candidates for this year’s election will attract as many voters as the party’s
forward-thinking and practical policies, Green co-leaders Jeanette Fitzsimons and Rod Donald say.
Banned from me old alma mater. Yes, no room on the Ship of Knowledge for me. Left sitting in the gutter in the cold
outside the warm, cosy Home of Education. And they made it sound so wonderful:
The revelations of widespread porn use among the police are hardly a surprise. Nor is it news. New Zealanders should be
completely cynical when senior police management and Labour government ministers make protestations and express shock
and dismay. ...
How do you give an existing car that's generally well respected, but no longer the new kid on the block, a new lease of
life? Simple really. Take the most popular model and put a bigger engine in it.
From Tuesday next week customers will be able to access civil union services throughout New Zealand, the Department of
Internal Affairs said today.
Media Release: War mongers at Te Papa From: Peace Action Wellington Date: Friday, April 22
New Zealand FMX rider Nick Franklin has headed off to Mexico City to take part in the Red Bull X-Fighters.
In this issue: France discovers a new way of putting itself at the centre of Europe by threatening to derail the new
European Constitution ; the Father of the Constitution, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing plans his own apotheosis ; and French
farmers are given ...
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who
hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
The one thing that international bankers don't want to hear is that the second Great Depression may be round the corner.
But last week, a group of ultra-conservative Swiss financiers asked a retired English petroleum geologist living in
Ireland to ...
25: The Berrymans
Attorney-General Michael Cullen said today he had asked the Solicitor-General to consider and report on whether there
were grounds to apply to the High Court to issue an order for a new inquest into the death of Kenneth Richards on the
property of ...
After all the fuss about George Bush's iPod, this handsomely entitled newspaper column, Thoughts For The New Pope:
Condoms. Female priests. Stop gay bashing. And dammit, do something about Christian rock got me thinking - c'mon, it's
Friday - about what ...
QUESTION: Madame Secretary, thanks for your time today. Are you quite sick to death of me yet?
LEAD STORY: Solicitor General Called In For Berrymans - No Naughty Net Research Needed, Says SSC - - Kevin List's Had A
Month Of It - Condoleezza Rice Goes To Russia - How The United States Is Able To Torture Political Prisoners - Hon Simon
Upton's ...
John Hannan, an employment partner in the Auckland office of commercial law firm Phillips Fox, says the current police
pornography scandal is a reminder about the perils of misusing email and the internet at work.
The NZDF activities on Te Papa's forecourt on Sunday from 11-1pm will be met with peace actions aimed at educating and
informing parents as to the reality of a career in the military.
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