Getting ready for Christmas
The singer Andy Williams would have you believe that it’s the most wonderful time of the year. Yeah, right. Try […]
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The Numbers Aren’t Right
Research shows that 25% of Southern Cross consumers are wondering why the newspaper does not conduct a reader survey. Admittedly,
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Books Reviews
Towards the Light – Jeanne Els
TOWARDS THE LIGHT: Hope in the Face of Depression, by Jeanne Els. Lux Verbi BM, Wellington. 2008. 224pp. Reviewed by
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Striking the right note at a funeral not as easy as it sounds
A diocese in Ireland has banned Céline Dion’s music from funerals, provoking much ire among potentially bereaved Catholics. The decision
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Culture of bad service
Before I took a wrong turn and stumbled into journalism, I worked for some years in the hotel trade as
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Pope Benedict, style guru for the noughties
Pope Benedict’s sartorial stylings have made news recently, in lifestyle magazines and in the Vatican’s newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. Last year Esquire
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The writer’s great fear of the blank mind and page
Every writer lives in fear. It’s a dread that would make dealing with the taxman followed by an unanaesthetised root
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The soundtrack of silence
In 1984 a German filmmaker asked the Carthusian grand prior whether he might film the contemplative monks of the order’s
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