Word: zealander
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...report included a ranking of the ten best and the ten worst governments in the world. The top three countries in terms of "quality of government," according to the report, are New Zealand, Switzerland and Norway. The United States came in seventh...
...years he had been under evaluation for the long-planned operation, Clint Hallam passed himself off as an Australian businessman who had lost his right hand and forearm in a logging accident. Turns out he really lost it using a power saw in a New Zealand jail, where he had been locked up for fraud. Hallam finally came clean two days before the operation, which was performed late last month in a French hospital. A Perth newspaper later reported that he has a court date in Australia in January on seven more fraud charges...
Saudi thieves take note: A 48-year-old New Zealander who three weeks ago underwent the first hand-transplant in decades held a press conference Thursday to confirm that the new limb felt just like his old one. Hallam lost his hand in 1984, in what he told French doctors was a logging accident. The accident was later revealed to have occurred in a New Zealand prison, where Hallam had been serving a two-year sentence for fraud. "Embarrassed as they might have been, the surgeons had no grounds for canceling the operation," says TIME correspondent Michael D. Lemonick...
Freshman Fleur Broughton, who came to Harvard from Christchurch, New Zealand, started off the weekend well for the team, knocking off Dart-mouth's Allison Taff, the number-two seed in the B flight. Broughton squeaked through the first set in a tiebreaker, 7-3, then dropped the second 1-6. After some words of wisdom from Coach Gordon Graham, she smoked Taff 6-0 in the third...
...bound to fail unless accompanied by adequate voluntary or compulsory savings plans in which money is invested prudently. Excessive investment on credit in risky projects needs to be curbed. People should invest in such ideas only if they can carry the loss of the investment. JENS MEDER Auckland, New Zealand...