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...similar tatters. Growing up in Apia as a boy, and later on scholarship in New Zealand, Albert Wendt recalls reading Treasure Island and Jekyll and Hyde "like every other young person, but I never considered him an important writer." Seeking to reposition his work as rich and revelatory, Wellington University's Roger Robinson last year published Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings. "Together they form a contribution to the literature in English of the Pacific, in five genres, that still stands unmatched," he concludes. So in this postcolonial age, are we ready to revisit Stevenson? A rereading...
After France admitted that its intelligence agents had blown up the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior in Auckland's harbor last July, relations between Paris and Wellington seemed to hit rock bottom. They were exacerbated even further last week when New Zealand customs officials announced that "enough ammunition to start a small war" had been found on the French-owned cargo vessellie de Lumière when it docked in Auckland. Aboard were some 5,300 high-caliber pistol rounds, automatic weapons parts and two military walkie-talkies...
...sometimes not for years. Meanwhile, they can make appearances in surprising places. There's even an art-world in joke in Dr. No, the 1962 film that introduces James Bond. On a wall of the evil doctor's Caribbean hideaway, you can spot Goya's portrait The Duke of Wellington, famously stolen the year before from the National Gallery in London. So far, though, there is no sign of The Scream version taken last year, not even in the movies. --By Richard Lacayo
...youth left him with a limp that would have required him to repeat the whole process. Frustrated, he left the military in 1957. He enrolled in Harvard Business School and, after graduating, began a career as an investment analyst. He worked at Putnam Management Company before transferring to Wellington and becoming a portfolio manager...
...change brought him into contact with a Harvard classmate, W. Nicholas Thorndike ’55, who had founded Wellington. During their summer between junior and senior year, Cabot and Thorndike had worked together in Elma, Wash., where their job was to put out forest fires...