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• floating hotels for the rugby world cup?

  
  Kiwi travel writer — Authority: 108
  All aboard for Rugby World Cup 2011 06 Nov 2009 Rugby fans opting to stay afloat on cruise ships that will provide accommodation during the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand will find themselves in the heart of the action. Five cruise liners have already been confirmed to provide much needed accommodation for ...
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• On the Playing Fields of Politics: Place of the Year 2009

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 567
  Michelle Rafferty, Publicity Assistant Iris Berger is professor of Professor of History, Africana Studies, and Women’s Studies at the University at Albany and author of Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900-1980 and South Africa in World History . For many years, she was involved in ...
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• INVICTUS movie will be coming to SA on 11 December 2009

  
  Beautiful Young Things — Authority: 125
  South Africa will be getting the Invictus movie out in local theatres sooner than we expect, BYT has learned that we might be getting it at the same time as the states will be in December this year. Which I think is a fair move from the directors considering it was shot locally.The flick that [...]Related posts: ...
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• Starting gun fired for 2014 World Cup

  
  Letchworth Girls' Rugby — Authority: 121
  Four countries have bid to host the 2014 World Cup, the IRB have announced - the largest number ever, though as this is the first time the IRB have run a public competition to find a host for a Womens Rugby World Cup its is rather difficult to compare it with previous tournaments. In the past the IRB has tended to ...
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• South Africa: Place Of The Year 2009

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 567
  Michelle Rafferty, Publicity Assistant I dare you to watch the trailer for this December’s Invictus —the story of how a newly elected Nelson Mandela used the 1995 Rugby World Cup to bring his people together—without feeling slight heart palpitation. Particularly in a scene where we see Mandela speaking ...
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• A salute and a tribute to our Singapore Rugby Lionesses

  
  The Singapore Sports Fan Says... — Authority: 410
  The report:This report about the national women’s rugby team – also known as the Singapore Rugby Lions – appeared in Saturday’s edition of The Straits Times:PAIN AND PASSION (The Straits Times, 7 Nov 2009)For the love of rugby, captain Wang and Co will do anything to playBy Lin XinyiHAVING your child attempt ...
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• Adam’s Winners of the Week

  
  The Inquiring Mind — Authority: 576
  This week the winners are the people of Auckland, visitors to the city and New Zealand . Why? Well John Banks and Mike Lee , an unlikely combination, Adam grants – decided to see sense over the folly that is/was Party Central and to scrap plans for a ‘cheap as chips’ iconic building – read nasty ...
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• Queens Wharf Will Now Sort The Mayors From The Boys

  
  Auckland Trains — Authority: 438
  Thank goodness. Putting the Queens Wharf design contest on hold – as I called for the other day – is the right decision but it’s not going to be the end of the debate about what should we do about this very important downtown site. But, like the bus strike, everyone seems to be dazed in the headlights and ...
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• Who is the greatest player in rugby union? Part five: Juan Martin Hernández

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Have your say in our special rugby debate: who is best in the world?
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• Scotland interested in staging Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2013

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  The SRU may submit a bid to host the Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2013.
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• World Cup: The last qualifier

  
  Letchworth Girls' Rugby — Authority: 121
  The tournament to decide final qualifier for the World Cup kicks off tomorrow (at around breakfast our time). The Asian qualification tournament will be a straight knockout, with the semi-finals on Wednesday and the final on Friday. In practice the eventual winner likely to be a serious contender next September, ...
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• Digipoll on Maori TV

  
  curiablog — Authority: 478
  A Herald-Digipoll in October 2009 finds: 44% approved of Maori TV leading a bid for Rugby World Cup coverage 45% disapproved
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• All Whites shouldn’t be like All Blacks

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 500
  In the run up to their sudden-death World Cup finals qualifier this month, the All Whites should take heed of mistakes the All Blacks made in their 2007 Rugby World Cup campaign, former New Zealand soccer coach John Adshead says. The All Whites face Bahrain in Wellington on November 14, with the prospect of being ...
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• Architects Defend Queens Wharf Contest -Are They Nuts?

  
  Auckland Trains — Authority: 438
  There’s an extraordinary statement on the NZ Institute of Architects Incorporated website. The Queens Wharf shed may not be worth saving It defends the failed Queens Wharf design contest and chides those who think it should be abandoned –which it should. “No competition is perfect, “says Institute ...
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• All Blacks vs France 1999: the greatest rugby match ever?

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Sport Blog — Authority: 579
  It’s 10 years since arguably the most amazing game in rugby. Think back … October 31, 1999, the Rugby World Cup semi-final between France and New Zealand at Twickenham. Actually, don’t bother thinking back to it … simply watch the astounding highlights.Now, no one but the most doe-eyed Kiwi will equate the ...
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• Invictus

  
  thephotographer4you — Authority: 130
  From director Clint Eastwood, “Invictus” tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and ...
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• Clint Eastwoods ‘INVICTUS’ TRAILER in HD

  
  Bitch Pleaz — Authority: 137
  New From Clint Eastwood, A look at life for Nelson Mandela after the fall of apartheid in South Africa during his first term as president when campaigned to host the 1995 Rugby World Cup event as an opportunity to unite his countrymen.Sound boring? It could be.Bitch Pleaz!Share with your friends [...]
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• Kiwis to determine Melbourne’s Super 15 fate

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 500
  Inaugural World Cup-winning skipper David Kirk is one of two New Zealanders who will determine whether Melbourne is admitted to an expanded Super 15 in 2011. Former All Blacks halfback Kirk and retired NZ high court judge Barry Paterson QC have been appointed by SANZAR to adjudicate the dispute between Australia and ...
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• Invictus: What does it mean to YOU?

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 510
  When he was only 12, William Ernest Henley contracted tuberculosis of the bone. Eventually his left foot had to be amputated just below the knee. He spent many years in and out of hospital because the disease also infected his right foot, but he refused to have it amputated as well. He was eventually discharged [...]
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• "Matt Damon!" New Trailers for Invictus and Green Zone

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 754
  August gave us the voice of Matt Damon in Ponyo , September gave us the inner voice of Matt Damon in The Informant! , and now October has brought us a look at his next two performances. Clint Eastwoods Invictus is one of the last big likely contenders of the awards season, though it is as of yet unseen (unless ...
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