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Today's top 20 rating items on Scoop are...
1: Americas
Cup - Prada Leads Table As RR2
Ends
Round Robin two of the Louis Vuitton Cup Challenger Selection Series ended after three previously cancelled matches were re-sailed from Race 6 of 14 November. Team Prada's yacht Luna Rossa completed the Round Robin yesterday with a total of 46 points, ...
2:
HARD
NEWS 26/11/99 - Bring it On!
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, we're nearly there. I had intended to deliver a high-minded meditation on the need for change. Indeed, I will. But before that perhaps we ought to look at the campaign - and at ourselves.
3:
Is
Cullen A Clone? And What About
Helen?
Having been out of the country for a while Sally has romped back to catch the dying days of the century. Believe me, compared to some other parts of the world, NZ is pretty groovy. In fact I would go as far to say, that apart from a terminal attraction ...
4:
TV3
News - Election Poll SHOCK! Special
Election Special - New Poll Extended Coverage - Delamere Sacking Extended Coverage - Americas Cup Fans Sail In From Vladivostok
5:
TV
One News
Labour In Box Seat - ACT/Nat Negative Ad Campaign Backfires - Delamere Immigration Scheme Doggs PM - ACT Under Siege In Auckland - Delamere Looks Likely To Gain Maori Support - 270,000 Voters Not Enrolled - 14 Year Old Girl Speaks Out On Prostitution ...
6:
The
Sumner Scene - Target For Voyeurs: Shame On
Us
Earlier in the year TV3 screened a heavily promoted episode of its high rating show, Target. The show contained a segment that revealed a plumber doing something inappropriate into a pair of womans panties.
7:
Will
The New Chapter in History Be Worth
Reading?
On the eve of this our last election before the new millennium, I am reminded of the words of Martin Luther King who said "I have a dream." In the spirit of those words and from my heart, I hope tomorrow as we vote, we think about realising ...
8:
Rankin
on Thursday: Damned Lies and the Third "R"
As usual, an election campaign brings out a number of false or misleading statistics, plus a general discomfort with issues that involve numeracy skills. While sometimes they are genuine mistakes, usually the inaccuracies are biased towards the political ...
9:
Scoop
Images: A Hobbit Summer
House?
Scoop is proud to present another image of Hobbitton… this time of what appears to be a fairly grand Hobbit summer house …enjoy.
10:
Scoop
Images: Greens Close On A High
Note
Members, supporters and candidates of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand gathered together last night in the Great Hall at the Arts Centre in Christchurch to formally celebrate their campaign closure.
11:
ENTER
THE GREAT SCOOP ELECTION
COMPETITION!
Scoop has a fine, unopened bottle of single malt whisky to whomever can correctly predict the election result.
12:
Americas
Cup: Three Great Matches End
RR2
Round Robin Two of the Louis Vuitton Cup finished with a flourish on Saturday. Three matches, rescheduled from Race Six, were sailed today. The matches were outstanding - all at one point featured good close match racing by teams fighting for precious ...
13:
Groundswell
of US Farmers Warn Against GE
Crops
In a political bombshell today 25 US farming organisations have warned their thousands of members against planting genetically modified seeds. John Howard reports.
14:
Tamihere's
Secret Revealed On Scoop
A symbol of a new beginning? Well that’s the way John Tamihere, his wife, and family are viewing General Election day tomorrow.
15:
Kiwi
Patent Foresight Threatens Yahoo! Shopping
A patent which threatens to derail the booming Yahoo! online shopping service was originally drafted in New Zealand by patent attorneys Baldwin Shelston Waters two years ago.
16:
ELECTION
1999: Voting In The Dark
The state of democracy in New Zealand looks shot to bits as, only four days out from a general election, nearly half of all voters do not understand how our electoral system works and forty per cent are unaware they will also be required to vote on ...
17:
Scoop
Images: And The Band Played
On
Readers who have seen the (highly recommended *****) documentary movie Campaign will recall a scene on the Wellington Waterfront in which Richard Prebble – fighting to save ACT from oblivion – holds a festive final rally. The soundtrack features a hired ...
18:
ELECTION
1999: Jonathan Hill's Election
Prediction
Right. As the chances of getting this right are slim indeed, this guess is purely on gut feeling. I'm picking a week of negative campaigning from National is not going to wash well with voters and will eventually be to the party's detriment.
19:
Lest
We Forget: Election A Memorial to Ian
Mutton
"Saturday's election should serve as a memorial to Ian Mutton, and to his late son Trevor."
20:
Scoop
Images: Suits And Protestors At ACT Rally
The other side of the ACT rally, Montgomery Burns, students, seafarers and men in suits....
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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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