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...turn up new details about Goetz's personality and past. Kalb also drew on his experience covering Watergate to report on how grand juries work. His New York colleague, Correspondent Kenneth Banta, talked with Goetz's neighbors and friends and rode the city's subways for a day to canvass straphangers on the level and fear of crime. Banta knows about crime first hand: he was the victim of an attempted mid-Manhattan robbery six years ago. While reporting this week's story, he recalled "the overwhelming sense of helplessness and anger I had felt then...
...more that the Undergraduate Council hopes to explore this week when it polls the student body on a set of issues concerning residential life at the 12 Houses. The two-page, 12-question survey will not only solicit comments on the lottery from freshmen but also try to canvass those who have already passed through it when it asks upperclassmen about issues such as House diversity and community. And, indeed, nothing could be more timely because at the same time that the College has worked to restore facades and refurbish interiors in many of the Houses, consensus on what life...
While the level, scope and quality of our programs would suggest an agency of much larger capacity, the Foundation is a small, part-time secretary, and three part-time student employees. Unfortunately, we do not have the resources or staff to canvass the University. Our students assistants, secretary, and I will generally contact invitees by telephone, espcially when our honoree gives us short notice of an arrival date or changes the date of the visit altogether. No doubt we will miss some interested students and faculty members in our guest selection for certain events. But in due course we hope...
...added that he convinced all of his teachers to vote for Kerry and persuaded 15 of his schoolmates to canvass for Kerry...
Currently, campaign polls only canvass voters on general issues and preferences, officials said, adding that the campaigns "track" the preferences of individual delegates to the June State Convention...