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Cleveland Museum's antiquities officials have failed to respond to my email request for information as to how the museum
acquired the South Italian Medea vase in 1991 recently cited on this page Cleveland's Got Prized South Italian Medea
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NEWS FROM PALESTINE Based on the life and writings of Samah Jabr A One-Act Play By Genevieve Cora Fraser
1. SHANE JONES (Labour) to the Minister of Finance: What was the cost of the business tax cuts that came into effect on
1 April this year?
Waitakere City Council, Mayor Bob Harvey and MP Lynne Pillay are urging locals to vote for Glen Eden’s Indira Moala who
is one of the three finalists in the current series of TVNZ’s New Zealand Idol.
Wow! The US doesn’t only do it in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Europe, Asia and North Africa – they practice
cruel and inhuman imprisonment right there at home as well!! And despite the daily diet of anti-terrorist rhetoric their
mainstream ...
First, let me begin by expressing my appreciation to Chairman Jackson, President Watts and the other organizers of this
conference for inviting me to speak. As the Senior Coordinator of the office in the U.S. Department of State established
to coordinate ...
Prior to David Cunliffe becoming Immigration Minister he supported Thomas Yadegary plight to seek refuge from Iran in
NZ. He wrote to him on his MP's letterhead indicating ongoing support for his refugee status application. Why has
Cunliffe now gone cold?
1. SHANE JONES to the Minister of Finance: What was the cost of the business tax cuts that came into effect on 1 April
this year?
9: News release
With only a fortnight to go in the Shop For Your School campaign, the race is on for communities across the country to
help their favourite school take a share of loads of new technology equipment.
Today members of the National Council of Women of New Zealand (NCWNZ) will be converging on Invercargill for the 2006
National Conference. The Conference will run from Thursday 28 September to Sunday 1 October 2006, at the Ascot Park
Hotel.
Six University of Waikato students will receive Adult Learners’ Awards of $1,000 each from Vice-Chancellor Professor Roy
Crawford at a ceremony on 6 September. The Vice-Chancellor’s Adult Learners’ Awards are presented each year during Adult
...
The name of the Office of the Commissioner is to change to Police National Headquarters. Police General Manager of
Public Affairs, Michael Player, says the Office of the Commissioner name has outlived its usefulness.
"Strokes are the third highest cause of death in New Zealand each year, and the highest cause of ongoing disability,"
says Mark Vivian CEO of the Stroke Foundation.
14: Business Briefs
Conference of importance to agribusiness Massey University economist Professor Allan Rae says the next Australian
Agricultural Economics Society conference will have special relevance to New Zealand’s agribusiness sector. Professor
Rae is president-elect ...
National Librarian and Chief Executive of the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, Penny
Carnaby, has been elected to lead the World Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL). The election took
place at the World Library ...
Recently a school janitor proposed a new principle of energy. If correct it predicates the survival or demise of
humanity. Should we be concerned that the principle suggests Peter Jackson’s new movie, the Dam Busters could be a damn
buster? You decide.
Many believe fascism will come to the United States of America resembling contrived spectacles such as the Super Bowl,
the Academy Awards, and American Idol, with the proceedings intercut with teary, yet ultimately triumphant, Oprahesque
tales of how ...
Three young Auckland women jailed for a crime they did not commit have accepted compensation ranging between $162,000
and $176,000 each, Justice Minister Mark Burton said today.
The word fascism is used a lot, often pejoratively. The image that immediately comes to mind is Mussolini in a steel
helmet, hands on hips, head tipped back, jaw thrust out. It is an image that influenced other fascists. Young Hitler was
a great admirer.
Prime Minister Helen Clark today said New Zealand utterly condemns the reports of a nuclear test by North Korea, saying
it is a provocative and destabilising act for the region.
So we're here. No more shilly-shallying about whether America is beginning to resemble a fascist society. We're now
plopped right down into it.
"The Government, Te Arawa people and the Manahi VC Committee have reached agreement with Buckingham Palace over a
suitable way of honouring the gallantry of the late Lance Sergeant Haane Manahi", Defence Minister Phil Goff said today.
Foreign Fishing crews look set to see an improvement in their pay packets and working conditions after the government
announced a range of measures aimed at improving the working conditions of foreign crew's working in New Zealand waters.
In an October 5th response to recent news of yet another pre-September 11th warning that was ignored by senior Bush
administration officials, four widows who lost their husbands during the terrorist attacks have issued a statement about
what they see ...
Sticking to the rules is easy but it won't get you anywhere in life. That was the message of former Corrections Minister
Matt Robson when he spoke at a school assembly at Moenui Area School yesterday.
The adequacy of our savings, and possible changes to our policy settings to encourage savings, are hot issues in this
country. These are topics which are now discussed in living rooms and smoko rooms around the country, not just in
boardrooms or university ...
Sue Bradford, Government Spokesperson on Buy Kiwi Made, today announced the first of a series of regional events to
promote the awareness of New Zealand made goods.
This month Hays across Australasia celebrates 30 years of leading from the front in specialist recruitment. Looking back
over the last 30 years, it’s obvious a lot has changed, but what will the recruitment landscape look like in the future?
Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Symantec Control Compliance Suite, an upgrade to the bv-Control portfolio
of products that helps customers reduce the cost and complexity of IT policy compliance through automated assessment of
policies ...
This address regrettably is set against the alarming claim from North Korea that it has conducted a nuclear test. This
regime has a disregard for seeing peace and stability in the region. North Korea must desist from the folly of thinking
the nuclear ...