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"Peter Jackson suggested a droopier moustache. I suddenly looked like a double for the Beatles' Maharishi", actor Ian McKellen on his transformation into the mage Gandolf - a Lord Of The Rings snapshot.
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Email
4 : Kit's Persecution, The Backstory
I began this e-mail last night because I found it hard to sleep. I want to put Kit's persecution into a context for the record. Please excuse the length. Henrik is right. There is a book in this.
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Opinion:
On The Meaning Of Freedom
Ironically enough, the spur to think again about the nature of `freedom' was provided by a phrase in a Young Nationals column - Jordan Carter in his From The Left Column.
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Scoop
Images: Liv Meets Some Smokin'
Ringwraiths
The following pictures - supplied to Scoop anonymously - show actress Liv Tyler in action during the shooting of some scenes for the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. The pictures were taken in the South Island near Wanaka.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
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Photo
Essay - The Wellington Waterfront
Plans
In the interests of informing the public Scoop has taken a number of photographs which show plans for massive building development on the Wellington Waterfront.
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Act
Foolishly Reveals Link With Timberlands
-NFA
The Act Party have made fools of themselves by publicising a Native Forest Action email and claiming it embarrasses the government.
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Timberlands,
Emails & Beech Trees
The government's decision to axe beech logging on the West Coast has been criticised yet again, with a foreign forestry expert saying the move was shortsighted. Scoop's West Coast correspondent John Howard reports.
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Government
Meetings Finally Put Banks Under
Fire
Banks are charging too much in fees and are misleading the Banking Ombudsman say a group to meet with the Minister of Consumer Affairs Phillida Bunkle, on Tuesday.
Kiwi golfer Michael Campbell made it second-time lucky beating 1998 winner Thomas Bjorn in the NZ$2.1 million (A$1.6 million) Heinekin Classic, as thunder and lightening crackled ominously overhead.
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The
"Thud" Of Jackboots Is Growing Louder-
Dunne
United New Zealand Party leader, Hon Peter Dunne, describes the Prime Minister’s reaction to private e-mail comments by a Timberlands executive as a “chilling and eerie over-reaction.”
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TVNZ
Defends Hawkesby Contract
TVNZ have come out strongly in defence of their termination of John Hawkesby’s news presenter company contract a year ago.
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Prebs
Rebs - following Mad Dog - Young
Labour
CONTENTS: Editorial: Mad Right-Wingers, and "We Won The War" A response to last week's column Rebels misfire again!
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10,000
Human-Gene Sheep Not a Trial -
Greens
Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley said today that a commercial herd of 10,000 genetically modified sheep in the Waikato made a mockery of "field trial" approvals granted by the environmental risk management authority.
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THEONERING.NET:
Tehanu Visits Hobbitton Set
NOTE: In association with our content partner http://www.theonering.net/ Scoop is delighted to bring you an account of Lord of the Rings reporter Tehanu’s visit to Hobbitton. The story is fairly remarkable as Tehanu’s invitation from Peter Jackson ...
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Gender
Crime Laws In For A Revamp -
Minister
"Parts of the Crimes Act are still based on a Nineteenth Century assumption that woman are incapable of committing a range of sexual offences", Justice Minister, Phil Goff, said today.
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Labour
Funding Anti-Logging 'Guerrilla'
Warfare
The Labour Government's outrage over an e-mail from Timberland's Kit Richards turned to embarrassment today when an e-mail from the head of the Native Forest Action Network revealed the Labour Party funding the group's "guerrilla warfare" campaign ...
There were five committee meetings, all held in Parliament House.
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Timberlands
Guerilla Warfare - Original
Email
Following Is the Original Letter from the Royal Forest And Bird Society along with the Timberlands Employee's Email which started the controversy.
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National
Radio 1pm Bulletin
Governor Brash - Screwdriver Gang - Regatta Mishap - African Plane Crash - Dinghy Pair Feared Dead - Windsurfer Lost - Truck Accident - Christian Cullen
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Scoop
Archive: Photo Essay - The Wellington Waterfront
Plans
In the interests of informing the public Scoop has taken a number of photographs which show plans for massive building development on the Wellington Waterfront.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/72/e4/199912221533.8d9a53cf.html
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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