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1: Americas
Cup - Prada Leads Table As RR2
Ends
Round Robin two of the Louis Vuitton Cup Challenger Selection Series ended after three previously cancelled matches were re-sailed from Race 6 of 14 November. Team Prada's yacht Luna Rossa completed the Round Robin yesterday with a total of 46 points, ...
2:
Americas
Cup Challengers Face Light Air Of Change
Today's racing brought a change of conditions from the past two days, heavy Northerlies giving way overnight to gentle South winds blowing from 7-13 knots. The winds were shifty however, both in velocity and direction, and the afterguards earned their ...
3:
ELECTION
1999: Jonathan Hill's Election
Prediction
Right. As the chances of getting this right are slim indeed, this guess is purely on gut feeling. I'm picking a week of negative campaigning from National is not going to wash well with voters and will eventually be to the party's detriment.
4:
ELECTION
1999: Alastair Thompson’s
Predictions
I find it hard to agree with the prevailing media opinion that this election is headed for a cut and dried victory to Labour. Most of the media commentary on this subject is based on the grand convergence of polls this last Friday.
5:
SCOOP
ELECTION: John Howard's Election
Picks
Contrary to my Scoop colleagues predictions on the outcome of the election, I am favouring a National-led government for the following reasons.
6:
Americas
Cup: Three Great Matches End
RR2
Round Robin Two of the Louis Vuitton Cup finished with a flourish on Saturday. Three matches, rescheduled from Race Six, were sailed today. The matches were outstanding - all at one point featured good close match racing by teams fighting for precious ...
7:
Selwyn
Manning's Election
Predictions
Isn’t democracy a fine thing. Just when it seems this country has been governed by self perceived born to rule cronies forever, the population deals out a right old telling off. Yip, here in south Auckland, three terms is long enough. That’s the ...
8:
Scoop
Images: A Hobbit Summer
House?
Scoop is proud to present another image of Hobbitton… this time of what appears to be a fairly grand Hobbit summer house …enjoy.
9:
Americas
Cup - Prada Team Cheered On By
Pavarotti
Italy's Prada Americas Cup challenger team has won its tenth match of the Louis Vuitton Cup in Round Robin. Prada beat the French yacht Le Défi by 3 minutes 49 seconds. The win followed a cheer session between the crew of Luna Rossa and world acclaimed ...
10:
Another
Personal Grievance To Employment
Court
Another employee personal grievance, likely to cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars, is heading towards the Employment Court. This time it's against West Coast SOE Coast Health Care Ltd. John Howard reports.
11:
Upton
On Line - A lesson from
history
Last night's Crossfire on TVNZ with the Prime Minister delivered us yet again the familiar image of Mrs Shipley fighting valiantly under the constant attention of two Bren guns rat, tat, tatting away. In upton-on-line's humble estimation, Mike ...
12:
Americas
Cup - Twas Another Strange Day's
Sailing
Thursday's racing started under heavy conditions, the wind blowing from the North at near 20 knots, the seas heavy with a two metre swell. What followed was a day of postponements, withdrawals, penalties and an outstanding display of aggressive ...
13:
Scoop
Column: UN Monitors Need For NZ Election
Too
New Zealand loves nothing better than to certify other countries' election ballots as "free and fair" so there can hardly be any principled objection to a delegation of monitors, from democratic nations, taking up position, pen in hand, ...
14:
Americas
Cup Race Reports - White Caps And
Clashes
Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes delivered a stinging defeat to Paul Cayard's AmericaOne on a white-capped Hauraki Gulf today as one boat in each of four other matches retired with gear problems.
15:
HARD
NEWS 19/11/99 - MMP = More Moral
Panic
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... trust the Tories, eh? Put them under pressure and they try and manufacture a moral crisis. There's been Ecstasy, there's been Home Invasions - and this week it's drugs and terrorism with the Green Party.
16:
Scoop
Oddity: There's Magic In Them There
Numbers
After observing the celebrations of the last completely odd day for 1112 years last Friday, Scoop on a hunch decided to check whether the date was also a prime - that is, a number indivisible.
17:
The
Abortion Bonus! U.S. Theory
Considered
Today, Scoop welcomes Barb Sumner to our columnist fold. Barb is a freelance writer, a regular in "Grace" and "Metro" and occasionally in the NZ Herald. She warns: some consider her works "too extreme". You be the judge.
18:
Act?
Fascist?
"Last week I observed that ACT, while having some policies describable with historical & philosophical accuracy as "fascist," was actually the least fascist of the main parties & much less fascist than the Greens," ...
19:
National
Radio Midday Bulletin
Winz - Labour: SSC Policy - Alliance: Telecom Policy - Alliance On MMP - Scott Watson In Court - Immunisation - Floods and Insurance - Plane Crash - Chechnya - Y2k - Maori Occupation - Air New Zealand - Valuation Row - Labour Costs - Big Performance
20:
Immigration
Minister slams New Zealand
Herald
Immigration Minister, Hon Tuariki Delamere, today strongly attacked the reporting standards of the country's largest newspaper.
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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