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...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: "We've got a revolution here...
...question is, ironically, one of too little control: there simply have not been good mechanisms in place to allow copyright holders to specify when they don’t want to charge royalties or require permission. The copyright code itself, after years and years of strengthening by such neutral parties as Disney, (who, it should noted, renewed strongly their interest in copyright code around the time when they would have otherwise lost their exclusive rights to that famous big-eared mouse), is more or less unflappable at this point...
...were motivated by a general sense that faculty, students, and staff everywhere in the University would benefit from the availability of a neutral interlocutor,” writes University Provost Steven E. Hyman, who oversees the University Ombuds Office, in an e-mail...
...expected a neutral person to mediate, but my impression was that my particular unit at Harvard had already contacted [Cummings] and she already knew why I was there,” he says. “She repeated almost word for word what I was told by the OHR unit. I thought the whole point of the ombudsperson was an informal thing where they would mediate as an outsider...
Other workers say that they don’t think that the Ombuds Office is as neutral as the University claims...