Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clark, a native of Auckland, New Zealand, who came off Harvard's well-populated injury list two weekends ago against Army and Cornell, persevered through a tough first set loss to turn things around and extend Harvard's season...
...scared to admit that archaic gun laws are causing young children to be killed? Or is the government too concerned about losing votes because of America's obsession with weapons? America must know that as long as guns are easily available, killings will continue. JONATHAN GREEN Auckland, New Zealand...
Soon after we arrived, I realized that my usual strategy for responding to such remarks was unavailable: the foreign travelers you meet in the South Pacific are often from countries like New Zealand, a place I'm not familiar with enough to know anything insulting about...
...Hall, an Everest veteran and a close personal friend of Viesters. As his body froze, Hall managed to contact the IMAX team via radio. In a moment saved from kitschyness by being non-fiction, the IMAX team managed to patch him through to his pregnant wife in New Zealand and listened as he named his first-born before dying. The emotional impact of the tragedy sent the IMAX team back down to base camp for some mental recovery time. Several had thoughts of leaving Nepal without reaching the top of Everest but decided to make one last shoot...
...South Wales in 1788, it was regarded, in legal terms, as being "terra nullius," that is to say, uninhabited. Thus the Aborigines were not deemed to have any claims to native land title, nor was there felt to be any need, as in North America and New Zealand, to negotiate treaties with the native inhabitants. Legally, Aborigines were invisible; dispossession could proceed without even the formalities of legal process...