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...jubilant Michael Cullen, the Finance Minister, said the sale represented "700 million votes of confidence in the New Zealand economy." Gosh! Aside from questions a visitor might have about the economic value of the Kiwi cult of selling second-hand stuff to each other, it's also tempting to ask whether the sale would have happened without the involvement of expatriate Kirk. Did the connection help Morgan get in the door or secure a great price? Did Kirk see something in Trade Me that his Australian competitors (or his Fairfax predecessor) missed? You can't help wondering if this deal...
...Zealand. In a small, remote country, the attraction of studying or working elsewhere - especially for high achievers - is strong. The overseas experience (OE) is a rite of passage, particularly for men. During the past 25 years, the outflow of young men has become a deluge. For thirtysomething Kiwi women, finding a mate has never been more difficult - they outnumber blokes in the 30-39 age group by 25,000. The differential stalls birth rates and has serious implications for the sustainability of the country's tax regime and generous social welfare system. But before Australians say tough, trend spotter Bernard...
...Kiwi A. D. Camara, the youngest graduate in the history of Harvard Law School (HLS), has become embroiled in a recent controversy at Yale Law School regarding his use of racial slurs during his time at HLS. Camara, regarded by many as a legal prodigy, graduated from HLS in 2004 at the age of 19, making him the youngest graduate in the school’s history. Currently a research fellow at Stanford, Camara submitted an article for publication to the Yale Law Journal’s March Symposium Edition. But an anonymous e-mail, sent to the entire Yale...
...These scenes, along with the rest of the film, were shot on the windswept fields and mountains of New Zealand, in an unmistakable attempt to recall the heroic vistas that Jackson found there. As the press materials prominently note, Adamson, like Jackson, is a born-and-bred Kiwi.“Andrew is from New Zealand and he knew what his country had to offer,” Johnson is quoted as saying in a four-page press release (“New Zealand / New Thinking”) provided at the junket.ACTING THEIR AGEThe film’s cast follows...
...Although more than 200 New Zealanders lost their lives alongside their American allies in the nightmare of Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, most Kiwi casualties were incurred far from home. Australia, in contrast, lost twice as many men in the Pacific as in Europe. During 1942 and 1943, the Imperial Japanese Army was moving south; in New Guinea, then an Australian territory, the Japanese might have expected an easy time against the relatively untrained and under-equipped Australian Militia - all that could be spared in the early days of the jungle campaign...