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Some media, including Scoop, is not convinced the explanations of the U.S. administration that American Airlines flight
587 out of JFK New York simply came apart and crashed over Long Island passes the smell test. Maree Howard writes.
Even as the Berlin Wall was taken apart brick by brick, another institution was crumbling around the world: the enforced
socio-economic integration of different ethnicities within former Communist nations.
The West is fighting a war on the other side of the globe. To determine how soon we will extricate ourselves from that
regional tar pit, we need to consider how we got into it. Maree Howard writes.
In this edition: Blame The 6 O’clock Swill For Piggy Drinking Habits - Double-dip, toodle-pip - Letter To Editor Of The
Star They Would Not Print
Winners of the DICK (Destructive Industries Connected to Killing) NZ Awards Awards 2001 and the DICKNZ Special 'Guided
missiles and misguided men' Awards 2001 [*] for government politicians.
New Zealand's largest Christmas gift appeal has launched across the country, with an aim to collect more than 15,000
gifts for Kiwi's in need from now until Christmas Eve.
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Eugene J. Carroll Jr. of the Center for
Defense Information, who assesses the quick turn of events in Afghanistan and how this may affect the U.S. goal of
capturing Osama ...
While not exactly the newest kid on the block in the on-going medium sized sedan stakes, Honda's ever green Accord
continues to achieve a consistently good report card...
According to General Tommy Franks, head of the US Central Command and the war effort in Afghanistan the noose around
Osama bin Laden is tightening. General Franks claims that the bombing campaign is now becoming more focused and the
arrival of British ...
"I am extremely happy to see that ACT is trying to join Young Labour in our effort to to put some fun into politics,"
said Jordan Carter, Young Labour President.
Increased youth drinking is being culturalised far more by a rejection of hypocritical values in society, than the
lowering of the drinking age, say Christchurch social ecologists.
The world’s greatest, gutsiest and gruelling adventure race will take place in New Zealand over 28 days at the end of
this year.
Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Antony 'Lofty' Hayward along with another one hundred and sixty members of the Fifth New
Zealand Battalion Group (NZBatt 5) arrived in East Timor on Thursday to begin a six month tour of duty with the United
Nations ...
Well, if it wasn’t for the war, the Taliban would still be in Kabul - and so would the eight Christian Aid workers who
were detained for three months after being accused of preaching Christianity. The bombing did sufficient damage to allow
the Northern ...
Transcript Of Message From Shaykh Usaamah Ibn Laadin (Osama bin Laden) broadcast November 3rd by Al-Jazeera satellite
television channel
The symposium follows the end of history with the rebirth of geography. As an historian that makes me sad. As the
Minister of Finance in a small and isolated country I welcome the focus on location as a key determinant of economic
options.
17: Back Off, Banks
The Green Party is demanding Auckland Mayor, John Banks guarantee the security of the council's pensioner housing
scheme.
1. YET ANOTHER CONTROVERSIAL TEAC REPORT 2. BUSH STILL THE MAN 3. WALK FOR CAPITALISM 4. TOP TEN HEADLINES WE'D LIKE TO
SEE 5. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
Images from the weekend’s 10th annual Taste Martinborough event, a sellout with 10,500 tickets sold.
The PM and her deputy have become experts at claiming all is well with the coalition, but an objective way of measuring
the cost of internal tensions is to look at the parliamentary order paper - the government's legislation and its
progress through ...
GE-Free New Zealand is welcoming the decision by Woolworths, one of New Zealand's major supermarkets and owners of Big
Fresh, to make their own products GE-Free.
Oracle Corp., the world's largest enterprise software company, today announced that it will complete delivery of its
Oracle9i generation of technology with Oracle9i Jdeveloper: a major Java tool innovation that offers application
developers unprecedented ...
Auckland 20th November 2001. Greenpeace today welcomed a statement from Progressive Enterprises Ltd that will see them
becoming the first supermarket chain in New Zealand to go GE free in their own brands.
At the reception desk of the War-Against-Terror Coalition, there lies an application form for new partners. After
stating his name, country and function (king / president / emir / dictator / tyrant), the applicant is invited to answer
the question: “Do ...
On Saturday I started changing the world, one doorknob at a time. Armed with some pamphlets that fit over doorhandles
and the house numbers of registered voters who'd voted in the November 2000 election, I walked down the sunny side of
21st Ave, from ...
Howard’s End: Dead Or Alive bin Laden Wins - Howard’s End: Flight 587 Explanations Highly Improbable - Motornet: Honda
Accord Never Misses A Beat - The Misguided Winners Of DICKNZ Awards Are... - Supermarkets Go GE Free - Colin Powell
Speech: A Vision ...
Green Party Biosecurity spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street said today the real cost of living with varroa was starting to
show, as gardeners suffer from a dearth of wild bees in Auckland.
A number of governments of the world's richest countries are pushing for expansion of global negotiations to liberalise
trade in services in the World Trade Organisation (WTO). This is being done through an agreement called the General
Agreement on Trade ...
"The women told me many stories while I photographed, mostly about survival....." In 1999, one of New Zealand's most
significant documentary photographers went behind the scenes to strip clubs, massage parlours and brothels in Auckland
and Hamilton ...
Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey joins Geoff Chapple, the first social entrepreneur to receive
funding under the new Government scheme which backs local people making a difference in their communities.