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Letter From Elsewhere: The Lord of the Wing-Dings

Thursday, 8 March 2001, 10:07 am | Anne Else

I am in mourning for my software. We've been together for fourteen years. We’ve written three whole books, parts of several more, and countless papers, speeches, articles and reviews. More >>

Letter From Elsewhere: Our Nation’s Story

Wednesday, 7 February 2001, 10:49 am | Anne Else

Pakeha are not into national celebrations or commemorations these days. We used to turn out in tidy, neatly hatted droves to watch solemn civic parades and listen raptly to amazingly plummy-voiced Prime Ministers and broadcasters intoning platitudes about ... More >>

How Market Treats Trick New Zealand's Children

Wednesday, 1 November 2000, 9:46 am | Anne Else

On Hallowe'en, news of a real-life trick-or-treat nightmare: a generation of children so fat and unfit that their brittle bones are breaking when they run, play, walk or even stand. More >>

Anne Else: The Future Of Adoption

Wednesday, 4 October 2000, 10:42 am | Anne Else

At long last, an official report on adoption law reform has grasped most of the biggest problems with this 45-year-old legislation, and put forward some reasonably sound remedies. But when the Law Commission's report came out last week, it made few headlines. ... More >>

The Whole Point

Wednesday, 6 September 2000, 9:54 am | Anne Else

Just when you thought it was safe to grow old, out of the BBC surges "The Age Wave" (Prime, 5 September). Yes folks, it's yet another gloom and doom report on the unmitigated disaster poised to break over humanity when the OLD (boo, hiss, ... More >>

Letter From Elsewhere: A Proper Envy

Thursday, 3 August 2000, 8:36 am | Anne Else

On 2 August the Dominion ran a front page item about top executive salaries. I had to read it twice before I could take in what it was saying. ANZ Bank research shows that executive pay has little or nothing to do with performance. The companies with ... More >>

Letter from Elsewhere: Macho is as macho does

Thursday, 6 July 2000, 10:15 am | Anne Else

Macho masculinity has been all over the media lately, in one form or another - and not just in the ads or sports reports. The head of a prestigious private school carpeted for rugby sideline ranting. An Olympic hero claimed to have a hidden life of gay ... More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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