Today's Top Scoops - 18 August 2008
Karim Sahai: Images Of Vishnu And His Avatars
Welfare: Bureaucracy Given Paperwork Bypass
Transport: Expert Challenges National Over Toll Roads
Party
Lists: National Moves Beyond Middle Aged Pakeha
Chaps
Immigration:
Gordon Campbell On The Yadegary Decision
Policy:
Duelling Energy Plans
Birth Rate: Stork In for Busy Time
Local Hero: Cantabrian Takes Out Top Building
Award
Transport Workers: Question mark remains over Georgia decision
Steve Weissman: Big Bad Russkies and Nasty
Neocons
Richard S. Ehrlich: Thaksin - The World's Newest
International Fugitive
Ramzy Baroud: Family Politics and the New Gaza
Crisis
Rosalea Barker: Obama and McCain Quizzed by Church
Leader
Martin LeFevre: Making a Friend of
Death
Theatre:
Encore Season Of Toa Fraser's Bare
Interactive Sculpture: Christchurch Garden Wins 2008
Landscaping Award
Bouncing:
Bungy Jumping - New World Record
Portrait Cleaning: Revealing Mr Webb
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Karim Sahai: Images Of Vishnu And His
Avatars - 'Incarnations', a colourful and
expert display of south indian dance by the Mudra Dance
Company, premiered on Friday night, at Victoria University's
Memorial Theatre. This latest dazzling dance creation of
acclaimed Wellington dancer and choreographer Vivek Kinra,
presents the story of Lord Vishnu - one of the pillars of
hinduism. The tale of Vishnu and his "avatars"
(incarnations) builds on the concept of 'Dharma' (justice)
and the destruction of evil. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00195.htm
NZ POLITICS
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Welfare: Bureaucracy Given Paperwork
Bypass - The Minister for Social Development
and Employment, Ruth Dyson, is welcoming a cut in
unnecessary administration for elderly, sick and disabled
people. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00270.htm
Transport: Expert Challenges National Over Toll Roads
- Dog & Lemon Guide Editor Clive
Matthew-Wilson said today: "National is promising public-
private partnerships in order to build new roads. That
sounds fine on paper. However, taxpayers need to know what
the real-world costs of these public-private partnerships
will be."
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0808/S00218.htm
Party
Lists: National Moves Beyond Middle Aged Pakeha
Chaps - The National Party's 2008 list promotes
strength and diversity, says Judy Kirk, National Party
President. Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga (Maungakiekie) has been
ranked at number 35, Hekia Parata (Mana) at 36, Melissa Lee
(list) at number 37. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0808/S00205.htm
Immigration:
Gordon Campbell On The Yadegary Decision -
While the release on bail of the Iranian Christian convert
Thomas Yadegary is a victory in the short term it may be the
last gasp of judicial common sense before the Immigration
Bill snuffs out the power of the courts to grant relief in
such situation. More
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[1] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/gordon-campbell-on-the-yadegary-decision/
Policy:
Duelling Energy Plans - National Party Leader
John Key says a Government he leads will focus on security
of electricity supply, while upholding New Zealand's
environmental responsibilities. More
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ALSO:
- Scoop Full Coverage - Full Coverage: National And Labour On Energy [2]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00229.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00188.htm
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
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Birth Rate: Stork In for Busy Time - The
birth rate reached 2.2 births per woman in the June 2008
year, up from 2.1 in 2007, Statistics New Zealand said
today. The last time this level of fertility was reached was
in 1991. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0808/S00271.htm
Local Hero: Cantabrian Takes Out Top Building
Award - Cantabrian, Graeme Earl, has won the
Supreme Award at the New Zealand Institute of Building
(NZIOB) Awards for Excellence in the Building Professions.
More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0808/S00265.htm
WORLD
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Transport
Workers: Question mark remains over Georgia
decision - Responding to the Joint Negotiating
Group's rejection of the proposal to declare Georgian
coastal waters a warlike operations area, ITF General
Secretary David Cockroft said: "It's an understandable
decision, given the declaration of a ceasefire." More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0808/S00258.htm
COMMENT
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Steve Weissman: Big Bad Russkies and Nasty
Neocons - When Soviet troops marched into
Hungary and Poland in 1956, I remember watching the agony
unfold on black and white television, a young infomaniac in
the making. One night, I watched with my father's uncle
Jack, an old Hungarian Jew who had no ... More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00197.htm
Richard S. Ehrlich: Thaksin - The World's Newest
International Fugitive - BANGKOK, Thailand --
The world's newest international fugitive from arrest is a
wealthy, square-faced man with a PhD. in criminal justice
from a university in Texas, and a former hand-holding ally
of U.S. President George W. Bush. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00194.htm
Ramzy Baroud: Family Politics and the New Gaza
Crisis - Yet more haunting images of
blindfolded, stripped down Palestinian men being
contemptuously dragged by soldiers in uniform from one place
to another. Yet more footage of bloodied men lying on
hospital beds describing their ordeals to television... More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00202.htm
Rosalea Barker: Obama and McCain Quizzed by Church
Leader - This Saturday, Senators Obama and
McCain will each be questioned for an hour by the leader of
Saddleback Church, Dr. Rick Warren, in Lake Forest, Southern
California. The event will be carried live by CNN and Fox
News, as well as being streamed live ... More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00201.htm
Martin LeFevre: Making a Friend of Death -
It's early enough to avoid the enervating edge of the day's
heat. After a workout on the track, I stop at the park to
cool off in the creek Lying on my back in the stream, the
gentle current caresses and relaxes my muscles. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00199.htm
LIFESTYLE
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Theatre:
Encore Season Of Toa Fraser's Bare - The
iconic NZ play that first catapulted Silo Theatre into the
cultural limelight returns on October 8 with an encore
season of Toa Fraser's BARE. Toa Frasers poetic vision of NZ
was a debut hit in 1998. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0808/S00168.htm
Interactive Sculpture: Christchurch Garden Wins 2008
Landscaping Award - The interactive sculpture
garden at Christchurch's Dyslexia Discovery Centre has been
named Stevenson Landscape of the Year at the 2008
Landscaping New Zealand Awards in Auckland. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0808/S00161.htm
Bouncing:
Bungy Jumping - New World Record - The Rock and
AJ Hackett are pleased to announce that Mike Heard has set a
new world record today off The Auckland Harbour Bridge, for
the most bungy jumps in one day. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0808/S00160.htm
Portrait Cleaning: Revealing Mr Webb -
The story of how Nathaniel Webb, an eighteenth century
gentleman, came to be revealed in all his glory will be
presented at Christchurch Art Gallery later this month.
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0808/S00155.htm
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