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China’s Shills All Come for Winston
Clark and Brash have spent years insisting we must never upset China. They treat any criticism of Beijing as dangerous. Peters said out loud what many New Zealanders think.
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The 223kg bar he cleanly raised above his head was swiftly slammed to the mat in celebration for New Zealand’s fourth gold in Glasgow.
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The word for today is… metaphor (noun) - 1: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in swimming in paperwork) 2: an object, activity, or
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And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
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David Farrar On Where Opportunity Truly Lies On The Political Scale
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Simeon Brown Stands By His Medical Council Appointments
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Former National Party leader Don Brash On ‘What’s Wrong With National?
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