Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Business School admissions staff mounted a marketing campaign over the past year, visiting nearly 60 undergraduate schools as of last spring...
...upon closer examination do the rolling fields of Italy reveal themselves. Faces from around the world punctuate the display of scenic terrains, giving the geometric landscapes a human side and situating them within a larger context. An old Cretan woman framed in her yellow doorway stands alone observing a campaign speech. Young boys solemnly look at the camera while apprenticing at a monastery in central Bhutan. In the village of west Hanoi children poke fun at the camera, while somewhere in the outskirts of Kamapala, Uganda, a mysterious woman stares intensely at its lens. The colorful aerial shot of nearly...
...intended," said he preferred his students see it "in their own homes, under the supervision of their parents." The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, a fiscal watchdog group that has become a sort of clearinghouse for conservative grievances since the anti-health-care-reform movement began, has revved up a campaign called "Hall Pass on That," urging parents to have their kids excused from watching the speech. In Oklahoma, state senator Steve Russell rivaled Florida's Greer for hyperbole, calling Obama's talk "something you'd expect to see in North Korea or in Saddam Hussein's Iraq...
...Because it's evident to anyone paying attention that this entire campaign has been marred by manipulation, cheating and now fraud, it's difficult not to interpret the benevolent silence from France as approving that process and outcome," says Marc Ona Essangui, a Libreville-based environmental activist and opponent of the Bongo regime. "France claims it didn't have a candidate in this election. France has always claimed it didn't have a candidate in Gabonese elections. And yet the ideal candidate for France has once again come...
...Activist Ona says the Bongo family fortune allowed Ali Ben to finance ubiquitous advertisements in a lavish campaign that his opponents could never have come close to matching. Meanwhile, Ona notes, local and international observers have marveled at how more than 800,000 names were registered on voter rolls in a nation of only 1.3 million people - an astonishing increase of more than 200,000 voters from the last election, in 2005. "That this election was unfair isn't even an issue, but there's so much suspicion of fraud that France should be voicing concern or protesting...