Republicanism in this country is the aloofness of the Supreme Court from the political departments and its superior respectability compared to the accommodating availability of the President of the Philippines and Congress to the importunate electorate and their dependence on its capricious goodwill.
I had a colleague on the Court who during the more than eight [...]
People danced in the streets. Strangers hugged and kissed. And an 18-year-old New York model waited for word from her Kiwi sweetheart.
Three months earlier, Weslee Price Wootten had sent the Western Union cablegram that would change her life: Darling, I will marry you. All my love.
Noel D’Audney enlisted in 1939, an Auckland University student who [...]
Who or what is God? Does he, she or it exist? What happens after
you die? Is there any meaning to life? What does the wisdom of the
ages teach us? And what about love? These are some of the questions
canvassed in this rambling monster of a novel, a family saga (of
sorts) spanning three generations.
All this sounds [...]
It wasnt that the 72-year-old didnt love his dad - rather, he didnt want to go back to his homeland, which had been ravaged during World War II.
He wanted to stay in New Zealand, the country that took 733 mainly orphaned Polish children and housed them in a camp in Pahiatua, east of Palmerston North.
I [...]
The genre of hacksploitation movies has many examples of socially maladjusted yet brilliant men and women saving the world from evil computer viruses, nuclear Armageddon and corporations run rampant. Theyre the thinking persons Rambos, solving the worlds problems with keystrokes rather than gunshots. Theyre tomorrows heroes writ large today. Hackers and your movies - we [...]
