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...other side of Auckland, Detective Sergeant James Watson has been won over by Key. In a year in which violent crime has risen by 12%, the would-be P.M. has played the tough guy to good effect, winning broad public approval for proposals including boot camp for young offenders and the scrapping of parole for hard-core criminals. "I'm not having, on my watch, people on the streets who've committed heinous crimes," Key told a national television audience. He's also made familiar right-of-center noises on education, foreshadowing national standards for literacy and numeracy, and plain...
...eventual nominees. But the researchers cautioned against using their data to forecast the outcome of next Tuesday’s election. While Nosek said that “the undecided voters may break slightly more for McCain,” he added that he expected the overall effect to be relatively small. Banaji also noted that because the data was collected online, it inherently “underestimates the poor, those who are not computer literate, and perhaps even conservatives.” Nonetheless, the research presents fascinating questions for the academic world. Harvard Psychology Professor Ellen J. Langer called...
Shortchanging Short Hops. What American giveth with one hand, it taketh with the other. A new mileage-award policy takes effect Dec. 31: Short-haul flights, which once earned fliers a minimum of 500 mileage points, will now earn points equal only to the actual miles flown. Super-elite gold and platinum AAdvantage members, however, will still receive the 500-point minimum...
...that issue.The directors of various offices and centers focused on tenure, research, and faculty recruitment also need to be consulted if the office would be impacted or have its domain diminished by even the smallest change in policy proposed by the bill. Few things halt change as effectively as a senior member of the University or faculty protesting after not having been consulted in a preliminary discussion.Next, the bill enters the official discussion mechanism of the University: the committee. In almost all cases, there is significant overlap of the purview’s of the standing committees of the Board...
...These include new legislation to allow criminals' property to be confiscated, as well as the establishment of a new police agency, modeled on America's Federal Bureau of Investigation. But the new measures still need to be approved by the parliament, and it will be months before they take effect...