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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings - 21 March 2006
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 8:09 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings - 20 March 2006
Tuesday, 21 March 2006, 9:24 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
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Audio: US Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill
Monday, 20 March 2006, 1:19 pm | Scoop Audio
US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Chris Hill is meeting with Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Prime Minister Helen Clark today. This morning he appeared at a photo opportunity with Winston Peters and answered ... More >>
Scoop Top 30 Weekend Ratings - 18-19 March 2006
Monday, 20 March 2006, 9:34 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
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Arts Festival Review: Parsifal
Saturday, 18 March 2006, 3:10 pm | Scoop Review
At this Festival, Parsifal has been promoted as the monolithic high art event. It stood head and shoulders above other offerings – circuses, various avant garde theatre productions, DJs and representations of the dangers of lodging our identities on ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: Ba Cissoko
Friday, 17 March 2006, 9:57 am | Scoop Review
With world music fusion bands seemingly a dime a dozen these days, it takes true originality and soul to make a splash on the international scene. Hailing from southern Guinea, Ba Cissoko projects all of the qualities which he has inherited as part of ... More >>
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings - 16 March 2006
Friday, 17 March 2006, 9:13 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
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Scoop Links: Guantanamo Images and Abu Ghraib Docs
Friday, 17 March 2006, 12:34 am | Scoop Link
Salon has presented an archive of 279 photographs and 19 videos gathered in the US Army's internal investigation of the torture and abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison. Salon notes that " To date no officers have been brought to justice ... More >>
Scoop Link: Robert Fisk On Ahmed Zaoui
Thursday, 16 March 2006, 1:47 pm | Scoop Link
03/15/06 "The Independent" -- -- Ahmed Zaoui, Algerian cleric and university professor, member of the Algerian Front Islamique du Salut (FIS), sits back opposite a cluster of statues of the Virgin, a painting of Christ's crucifixion and three Catholic priests. ... More >>
US Contractor With Bombs & Guns Arrested In Iraq
Thursday, 16 March 2006, 11:23 am | Scoop Link
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi police detained an American private security contractor working at a U.S. military base in northern Iraq for several hours on Tuesday, a U.S. military spokesman said. More >>
Arts Festival Review: Aterballetto
Thursday, 16 March 2006, 9:34 am | Scoop Review
Aterballetto, one of Italy’s foremost dance companies - touring for the first time down under - brings a concert of three repertory works choreographed by the company’s artistic director Mauro Bigonzetti performed by an exuberant and technically explosive ... More >>
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings - 15 March 2006
Thursday, 16 March 2006, 9:30 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
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Arts Festival Review: Subramaniam
Thursday, 16 March 2006, 12:58 am | Scoop Review
For his Festival concert at Saint Mary of the Angels, classical Indian violin virtuoso L Subramaniam explored the fusion of eastern and western musical tradition with the help of two hand drummers and a player of the moorsing, a mouth harp. Although the ... More >>
Arts Fest Review: The Hilliard Ensemble - Passio
Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 4:11 pm | Scoop Review
Arvo Part has, since the mid-1970s, become one of the most popular composers in Western concert music. Estonian, he has developed a distinctive style ( tintinnabuli ) which, in part, combines plainchant and minimalism. Passio (the St John Passion), written ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: Talvin Singh
Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 4:00 pm | Scoop Review
As you'd expect, the festival promotion machine took care with their advance description of Talvin Singh's set. "Low-fi electronica" was bang on, but while the audience was appreciative, you had to wonder whether many of them might have been ... More >>
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings - 14 March 2006
Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 9:07 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
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BBC Link: Secret Sale Of UK Plutonium To Israel
Tuesday, 14 March 2006, 10:50 am | Scoop Link
The UK supplied Israel with quantities of plutonium while Harold Wilson was prime minister, BBC Newsnight can reveal. The sale was made despite a warning from British intelligence that it might "make a material contribution to an Israeli weapons programme". More >>
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings - 13 March 2006
Tuesday, 14 March 2006, 9:06 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
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Arts Festival Review: Pat Metheny Trio
Monday, 13 March 2006, 7:36 pm | Scoop Review
With a career that spans 17 Grammy awards, three gold albums, and thirty years on tour, there are few places in the world which remain untouched by jazz guitar legend Pat Metheny. In his first-ever New Zealand concert, Metheny gave the ecstatic, sold ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: Tuwhare
Monday, 13 March 2006, 2:21 pm | Scoop Review
An underlying creative spirit connects all artistic endeavours, be they musical, literary, or visual. Unfortunately, these disciplines are often locked into solitary cages by audiences, and indeed, by artists themselves. For Tuwhare , Wellington singer/songwriter ... More >>
