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...shattered." So does the one about next year's elections. Before Brash became leader, polls put National's support at just 27%, far behind Labour's 45%. Last week National had shot to 45% while Labour was behind for the first time in four years, on 37%. In a prompt about-face, Clark appointed the country's first Race Relations Minister - non-Maori Trevor Mallard - to ensure that policies and laws are race-neutral. "She has looked at the polls and realized this is not some bitter rednecks on the fringes," says political commentator Jane Clifton. "This is deep-seated...
...hours urgent care; and adjustments in management protocols so that clinicians always have some clear time every week in their schedules for emergencies. A new triage system allows same-day telephone access to an experienced clinician for students who call, in order to clarify their concerns and arrange a prompt meeting with a clinician whose skills will match their needs...
Tucked inside the 2005 budget from the Bush Administration is a proposal that may prompt you to sigh with relief if you have feared being hit with the alternative minimum tax (AMT). It's a patch--not a full-strength remedy--for a complicated tax that was designed to prevent the wealthy from avoiding taxes but is increasingly hitting the wallets of middle-class taxpayers...
Quincy House contains the only (renovated) River House dining hall with no inter-House dining restrictions, and the House recently debuted another feature to be proud of: new state of the art fitness facilities. Quincy’s prompt gym-updating efforts should be applauded and emulated, and its residents have reason to be proud. Hopefully, the revamped Quincy gym is a preview of things to come campus-wide...
...those of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV) have argued time and time again against instituting the judicial safeguards that make state courts relatively fair and the Ad Board unfair. CASV has argued, among other things, against a standard of “independent corroborating evidence” to prompt an Ad Board investigation—something former Dean Harry R. Lewis nonetheless instituted—and for a near-absolute victim confidentiality. Massachusetts, as well as a score of other states, have confidentiality statutes where the accuser can keep her identity veiled, but the Ad Board?...