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It was a hoot to watch the American media salivate over Saddam's capture. Acting as though their militarism and
chauvinism have suddenly been vindicated, CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC anchors could barely contain their macabre glee.
This ''open letter'' is coming from my heart. I want you to know that I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat and that
this is not an attempt to ''bash the Government''.
Philip J. Berg, Esquire, announced today that he, attorney for Ellen Mariani, wife of Louis Neil Mariani, who died when
United Air Lines flight 175 was flown into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on 9-11 at a news conference
regarding the ...
Something very strange happened in Volusia County on election night November 2000, the night that first Gore won
Florida, then Bush, and then as everybody can so well remember there was a tie.
Top 10 comments made by Saddam Hussein after his capture
President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria today received the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO)
Agricola medal from for his role in bringing peace and boosting agricultural and social development in Africa's most
populous country.
On August 18, 2002, the New York Times carried a front-page story headlined, "Officers say U.S. aided Iraq despite the
use of gas".
Deep in the halls of Washington a putrid wind of sweeping ideology festers, swirling like a hurricane from the Atlantic
seaboard, becoming a tornado in the frozen tundras of the Midwest, an impenetrable and monstrous fire wall consuming
vast tracts of ...
When I first heard of the capture of Saddam Hussein, my immediate reaction was ''Well, that does it. Bush has a lock on
the election!'' Then I had second thoughts, as sweet reason took hold of my reflections.
Two hundred years after Haitians overthrew slavery and colonialism, human rights abuses are on the rise. Political
division and violence, impunity and the reduction in international support worsen this situation, Amnesty International
said while ...
A rare provocative exhibition studying the human body – called Bride Stripped Bare -- will look at the work of New
Zealand artists struggling against the domination of landscape painting when it opens in Wellington in February.
Baghdad--Details of the former dictator's arrest reveal that in the final moments before a raid on his hideout, Saddam
Hussein likely disposed of valuable evidence that would have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he possessed weapons
of mass ...
In the absence of an announcement from anybody else, National MP Murray McCully is pleased to officially announce that
the Maori Television Service is now on air....or sort of, eighteen months after the original on-air date.
When he's bad, Holmes can be awful. When he's good, as he was during last night's Holmes show discussion on the
foreshore proposal, he's a useful citizen. There was a sense of seriousness not always present in that programme, and
that was good... ...
British Prime Minister Tony Blair as confirmed Saddam Hussein has been captured in Tikrit, Iraq. Unconfirmed news broke
late Sunday night (NZ Time) after Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani was quoted by the official Iranian news agency saying
that the former ...
1. Dr DON BRASH (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Do the comments made by the Hon Tariana Turia, in
relation to management of the coast and sea, that “… there is no way that tangata whenua will ever give up our rights
voluntarily, ...
The Human Rights Commission has decided to examine the New Zealand University Students Association’s claim that women
with student loans are discriminated against because they take, on average, twice as long to clear their debt than men.
This publicity ...
Child, Youth and Family has today issued the findings of an inquiry by Ailsa Duffy QC into the handling of a phone call
that Ron Burrows, father of Coral-Ellen, made to the Department on 21 January 2003.
Four weeks leave was passed into law on Tuesday the 16th of December after a successful campaign between the
Progressives and the unions to encourage our Labour colleagues to support us in championing a great improvement in
working conditions for low income ...
You can expect the respective judgements on the government's long-delayed proposal on the foreshore and seabed issue
today to vary so widely as to create the impression that they being ventured on completely different documents...
The Holidays Bill that gives four weeks annual leave to all New Zealanders was passed in Parliament today.
The humiliating footage, beamed to the world, of a bedraggled Saddam Hussein having his mouth examined by a U.S.
military doctor is living proof that the embarrassing, once U.S.-supported Iraqi despot has finally been deposed.
You know you're winning an argument when your opponents resort to personal abuse. The past six weeks I've copped plenty
of personal flak, but this week two in particular were exceptional.
In anticipation of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the central instalment in
writer/director/producer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, Te Papa proudly announces
a world exclusive and a bold ...
"It's time for the Government to give something back to overtaxed New Zealanders," says National Party Leader Don Brash.
26: The Column
INTRO: This week’s column considers the disturbing effects of Labour’s new Foreshore and Seabed race-based policy just
announced.
1) New Palestinian resistance camp in Deir Ballut to start this Friday 2) Activist say Israel hides human rights
abuses_The Daily Star
''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,'' the movie to be directed by kiwi director Andrew Adamson, is coming to New
Zealand in what Industry Development Minister Jim Anderton says is ''a vote of confidence in our country as a location
for film and ...
Bev Harris, author of Black Box Voting , and Andy Stephenson, Democratic candidate for Washington Secretary of State,
have uncovered information that brings concerns about electronic voting to a new level. This information affects both
optical scans ...
The real story this week isn't the adoption by the US military of a meme from a fantasy movie - spider hole, indeed! -
but the adoption by Afghanistan of a constitution. Will that country's governing body be the sort that has a separately
elected President, ...