they can’t be. Human memory isn’t that good). Lange wrote, pointing out that a flat tax gambit from Douglas had “bound the Government either to make large numbers of low and middle income people

It is one example of how a better future might have looked, yet 50 years later Auckland has still not made the right choice. So, it's the usual suspects on the Right who, rhetoric notwithstanding, are

days they don't care about such outmoded concepts as good manners. It's all tribal. In the land which gave us "Presidential" politics, with its emphasis on individual qualities, personal integrity, charm

Not good enough apparently, it still wants more. Rio Tinto won the 2011 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating In Aotearoa/New Zealand (and was runner up in both 2009 and 08).

Both place the main character in old age, looking back. Both attempt neutrality, but “J. Edgar” achieves it only by being misleadingly bland, and while DiCaprio gives a good performance he can’t

They just keep getting bigger and better. Speaking as an attendee (and participant) of all three North Island events, they’ve been a bloody lot of fun. Anywhere from 70-100 people had a great time at

while a former Archbishop of Canterbury gave a character reference to one of the sleaziest of his journalists. Or perhaps the Murdochs become spiritual only when cameras have been summoned. Most times

menstruating over characters including the Pope. Within a month it had received over 100 formal complaints and criticism from the Prime Minister, Helen Clark. It admitted it regretted airing the show

have been up to no good. cops charged with apprehending always resisting any urge to slip the non-existent schemers. Initiat- into easy caricature. The police we Like the rest of the country,

as Skilling, might say, features two good apples going bad. But, far from straying from their society’s mores, the Enron characters were always part of them. Can the system afford guilty verdicts? Yes,