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...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 in middle New Zealand." Mayor Harrison, a fierce critic of the government, puts it more bluntly...
...including the aesthetic. Cambridge Puritans, it seems, have no time for what they characterize as “duck boats” dredged from some military warehouse. Tyler has already made a vigorous—and convincing—case that his planned vessels are not in the least mallard-esque, nor are they warlike. (They are, he contends, merely a transcendent kind of bus, separate from the Patton-era DUKW surplus vehicles familiar to many...
According to Gogan, white-crowned herons nest under the Radcliffe crew’s dock each spring. Mallard ducks and Canada geese also find a home in the vicinity...
Under the weighty Latin inscriptions and massive wood rafters of Sanders theatre, more than 1,000 spectators donning everything from tuxedoes to lab coats honored the first man to record homosexual necrophilia in Mallard ducks last night...
...Moeliker of the Natuurmuseum Rotterdam in the Netherlands explained the origin of his experimentation with Mallard ducks, pulling out a duck corpse from a brown paper bag to illustrate his point...