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...campaign manager, "What do we do now?" The implication is that the Senate race winner is weary, disillusioned and in no state to make the transition from rhetoric to reality. John Key has had no such problems. Having led the National Party to an emphatic triumph in New Zealand's Nov. 8 general election, ending nine years of Labour rule under Helen Clark, the former currency trader was pressing for a quick handover so he could attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit in Peru from Nov. 22. The day after Key's National-led government was sworn...
...seem to have hit the ground running. Well, time in opposition focuses the mind. Also, the international financial crisis is weighing not only on New Zealanders' minds but on the mind of every leader who's been calling me. It would have been unacceptable for New Zealand not to be represented at the APEC summit...
...international stage. How do you think you'll cope? I'm looking forward to it. With the global economy the main focus, in a sense my previous career as an investment banker puts me in a pretty strong place to understand what's going on and to articulate New Zealand's perspective...
...United States. From a global perspective, it was another really important milestone: an African American elected as President. For me, it was another example of change. We'd seen that in Australia with Kevin Rudd, then Obama's election. It certainly helped set the mood for change in New Zealand...
...Next step: cash in. The hit U.K. show is already seen in more than 100 countries, from Norway to New Zealand, South Africa to Saudi Arabia; its global audience stands somewhere near 500 million. Almost two dozen local editions of the Top Gear magazine - a best seller in Britain - appear on newsstands worldwide. And foreign versions of the program are next. In September, Australian broadcaster SBS aired the first of eight episodes of its own edition of Top Gear. A pilot of a U.S. version is already in the can, and a Russian series is set to air early next...