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...England's Jonny Wilkinson is brave in defense, obsessive by nature but composed when it counts, and, of course, a deadeye. But the fact he was a star of the tournament while his Kiwi counterpart, Daniel Carter - who has every skill a No. 10 could wish for - disappeared without trace says much about where rugby is. The game's crying out for less kicking and more running. A radical idea: except where foul play has occurred, penalty kicks at goal should be permitted only from within the opposition 22. (And league has it right with its single-point field goal...
...seem to reflect the mystery of this place," says Neill, whose merchant great-grandfather arrived during Otago's gold rush and grew wealthy from selling supplies, including alcohol, to miners. "So your family have been peddling hooch around here for 150 years," jokes Peren, who hails from such quintessentially Kiwi stock--as New Zealanders would call it--that his grandfather even had a breed of sheep named after him. Peren launched the Peregrine Wines label in 1998 in partnership with oenophile oncologist Murray Brennan of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. (Brennan visits for vacations.) Peren...
...Nanna Maria isn't the only one taking notice. A hemisphere away in London, Ian Conrich, director of the newly established Centre for New Zealand Studies at the University of London, has been watching the new tide of Kiwi filmmakers with interest. In the wake of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, the New Zealand industry has been experiencing something of a second coming: from the just-released true-crime flick Out of the Blue, based on the 1990 Aramoana massacre, to Jonathan King's eagerly awaited genetic-engineering fantasy horror, Black Sheep, which carries the tagline, there...
...Tripodi. It's a wonderful achievement for them - and for Australia - that after only a few generations migrant families have seen their kids make it to Parliament. This immigrant upward mobility in politics is one of the things keen observers from New Zealand comment upon when they visit. (Kiwi politicians come in two flavors, not a good sign in a small country prone to exporting its talented people). As in the ranks of the public service and business, non-Europeans (people originally from Asia, the Middle East or the Pacific Islands) will soon emerge at the top of Australia...
...Zealand companies (dairy producer Fonterra is a standout) have annual overseas sales of $1 billion. Only one figures in the 2005 Forbes list of the world's top 2000 companies (Telecom was No. 988; Australia had 38 companies on the list). Not only do the Kiwis need national champions, argues Skilling, but they must invest in "sticky" assets (unlike graduates who easily find their way to Sydney, Hong Kong and London) and keep the "action at home." One advantage that New Zealand has over Australia is that it can move very quickly; its size and government structures allow rapid deployment...