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...rights now incremental. Cutting spending on services is very difficult - and politically hazardous. "Government is like running an aircraft carrier," he tells Time. "You can only change direction very gently - otherwise the planes fall off the deck." Voters have only a few days left to decide whether Helen Clark or Don Brash should be trusted as captain...
...Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) voting system, introduced in 1996, means the minor parties will play a role in forming a coalition government or supporting it from outside. For this election, Labour has teamed with the Greens, whose co-leaders Jeanette Fitzsimons and Rod Donald could find themselves in Clark's Cabinet. Peter Dunne's families-focused United Future party has said it could work with either major party. The Maori Party, formed after the foreshore and seabed issue, has said (after some reluctance) it could cooperate with Labour but not National...
...Zealand First is taking a "pox on both your houses" attitude: it will not be in a coalition with either of the major parties. Who can say where the mercurial Peters will take his troops after Sept. 17? A sure thing, however, is that next week either Clark or Brash will be all dressed up and looking for dancing partners...
...Monica Clark, a senior and the UNO student body president, was handed a piece of paper with a scrawled number—4212—to set her apart from the thousand or so students taking refuge at LSU from colleges throughout New Orleans. They would all leave with LSU ID’s, their passports for a semester’s study...
...Here nobody cares who you are,” Clark said, holding a course guide close. “I’m like, ‘I’m the [student government] president.’ They’re like, ‘Who cares...