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Shaun Quincey: Crossing was a struggle against nature

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200

At night, my world is a collection of violent twists, rolls and thuds combined with the noise of howling wind and waves crashing into, on to and over you.I lie there braced with my feet against the walls of the cabin and back...

David Leggat: Masters an ironic choice for Tiger's comeback show

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200

Four names: Charlie Sifford, Lee Elder, Calvin Peete and Tiger Woods.Sifford won two US PGA Tour titles in 1967 and 1969; six years ago he was the first African-American inducted to the world golf Hall of Fame. He was never invited...

Aussie Svengali pulls strings in Bingle tale

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200

At the height of the Lara Bingle affair, the tabloid Daily Telegraph ran a cartoon featuring the Sydney model with a vulture on her shoulder.The vulture had the features of Max Markson, Bingle's PR agent. The caption read: "Things...

Brian Gaynor : Finance suffering from lack of policing

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200

The demise of Strategic Finance demonstrates once again that investors have been badly let down by our securities laws, regulators, directors, management, the accounting profession and investment advisory industry.The failure...

Sandra Bullock's cheater husband apologises

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:55:39 +1200

Sandra Bullock is on a career high. America's Sweetheart and "Miss Congeniality" was repeatedly anointed as Hollywood royalty this year, sweeping awards season and capping it off with an Oscar for her role as a devoted mom in The...

NZ Arts Festival: Frisky and Mannish review

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:00:10 +1200

Are we all sitting up straight? We are. The demeanour of the woman in the purple hair and glitter mortarboard insists upon it. "Welcome," she says menacingly, "to the School of Pop." Tonight's lesson isn't so much launched as unleashed:...

Media : NZ slow to embrace wonders of 3D

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:00:09 +1200

Hollywood movie distributors are hoping Hoyts' purchase of Berkeley Cinemas will hurry up the rollout of 3D.After the success of Avatar , there has been a big global push to make cinemas 3D-capable and Hoyts has been active in...

French game show slammed

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:00:08 +1200

PARIS - Most people would kill for the right to appear on a reality television programme. Literally so, if you believe a documentary which was broadcast on French television.The programme - Le Jeu de la Mort , or The Game of...

Inga Tuigamala : Selectors must let the Special Project specialise

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:00:07 +1200

The time has come to sort out the career of Isaia Toeava once and for all.Let him specialise in one position, and quit this destructive business of shunting a brilliant footballer all over the backline.If Toeava himself and...

Video shows UK truck pushing woman in car 530m

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:58:50 +1200

A woman driving down the UK's A1 motorway was pinned to the front of a truck in her car for over 530 metres.The video of the incident on YouTube (shown below) has been posted on news sites around the world.The

Fran O'Sullivan: Hide's Super City merger mess

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:07 +1200

It is hard to fathom why John Key continues to allow the leader of a minority party to drive the biggest "corporate" merger in New Zealand's history when he is making such a pig's arse of it.It was never going to be easy to merge...