Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Interestingly, neither Guerra nor even Fasi chose to come to Cambridge thinking they would play polo here. Guerra says he didn't even know of the club team's existence when he was applying. And Fasi remembers that "out of six schools I applied to. Harvard was the only one that didn't recruit me for water polo." He wasn't planning to play here until he heard in May 1980 of the switch to varsity status...
...distinguish themselves from each other, the candidates plastered photographs everywhere. "Fred is fuller in the face," said his aide. Even so, some perplexed voters switched back and forth so often that their erasures wore holes in their ballots. Others voted for both. In the end, the mostly Democratic county chose up sides by party and made David the new Sheriff Qualkenbush...
...people per network. The technique was pioneered by CBS Pollster Warren Mitofsky in 1967; since the 1980 primaries it has been a favorite statistical gizmo of all three networks. Voters are handed anonymous questionnaires asking their age, sex, race and political attitudes, as well as which candidates they chose. Exit polling can be intrusive: officials in the state of Washington alleged that CBS aides in Black Lake (pop. 15) and NBC operatives in Bellingham (pop. 45,800) had come right into polling places to solicit opinions...
...great place to go for competitive water polo, Forget about high-powered recruiting; the world is out on Brown polo so that the California high school stars know to consider Brown if they plan to playin college. By contrast, neither of Harvard's Co-Captains. Rich Guerra and Fasi, chose Harvard for its polo program...
...that win in the obscurity of Harvard. As a result, attempts to recruit have had little luck: Couch Pike tells how one year he wrote to 18 application who had some polo experience to tell them about the program. Of those 18 three ware accepted; of those three two chose Suuford and one went to Yale...