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...exposed to the female rituals of village life made the director "want to go deeper into my own culture," she says. By decade's end, she had returned to live in New Zealand, and a few years later her theater company The Conch was born. As a teacher at Wellington's New Zealand Drama School, she had seen the need for Pacific performers to devise their own material: "There are only a number of brown parts on a TV series. So it's about making your own market." The Conch's first theatrical offering is a case in point. Born...
...Harvard Management Company (HMC) announced last week that it had appointed a chief for its newly created foreign exchange management team. Karen Parker Feld will join HMC from Wellington Management Company, where she currently manages over $20 billion in her capacity as director of foreign exchange. Previously, Feld worked for Chase Manhattan Bank as a managing director and the head of currency research for Chase Manhattan Bank. In a statement, HMC President Mohamed A. El-Erian said he looked forward to working with Parker Feld. “Karen brings to HMC proven strong portfolio management skills in the foreign...
...neighborhoods, Chinatown has shown the least improvement. The garment industry there never fully recovered, existing zoning laws inhibit residential development, and the area is struggling to make the most of the hundreds of small businesses that dominate the area. But Chinatown has a new leader for its business district: Wellington Chen, who promises to boost tourism and marketing and clean up the streets...
...finding countries willing to take them off Australia's hands, says McDowell: "Resettlement countries are becoming more selective in who they take, from where, and on whose terms." Many of those taken to Nauru in 2001 and found to be refugees were accepted by New Zealand, but in Wellington, a spokesman for Immigration Minister David Cunliffe says Australia has made no request for talks on a future resettlement deal. He might expect a call soon...
...Club is chic, private and very hard to get into. It's the jet set's place to dine. 32 Wellington Street, Central...