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Sophomore midfielder Katie Johnston took a ball to the face at close range in the 71st minute. Soon afterwards, the Crimson was down for the count...
...pollsters compensate for such omissions? Once they've finished interviewing, pollsters weight the data. For example, 80% of adults are high school graduates, according to the last census, so if only 60% of the respondents are high school grads, the pollster gives their answers more weight, making them count as 80% of the sample. Most election polls--including TIME's--weight for age, sex, race, education and region of the country. A few pollsters, like Zogby, also weight for party identification, to make sure there's a representative number of Democrats, Republicans and independents in the sample. More traditional pollsters...
...filing nine lawsuits around the state challenging the interpretation of various election laws, on everything from where provisional ballots can be cast to kicking Ralph Nader off the ballot. "They're trying to create a scare, where people think, I don't know if my vote's going to count," says Reed Dickens, a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney campaign. "They're trying to create the impression of chaos. That's their strategy...
...Delhi between India's and Pakistan's Prime Ministers. - By Tim McGirk Fallout Over Funds LATVIA Prime Minister Indulis Emsis' coalition government resigned after legislators rejected his proposed 2005 budget. His coalition - the Baltic state's 10th post-Soviet government - held just 47 seats in the 100-member parliament. Counting In Kosovo SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO All 660,000 votes cast in Kosovo's legislative elections will be recounted. Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, acting on complaints by political parties, found inaccuracies in the count. Earlier partial results showed no party had enough support...
...Mustansiriya University in Baghdad and Columbia University in New York City want an independent body such as the World Health Organization to examine their findings. "This is a very interesting and a very brave study," says John Sloboda, a psychology professor and co-founder of Iraq Body Count, a British online database. While his group counts "actual Iraqis" killed, based on media reports - and gives a figure of about 15,000 - Sloboda calls the Johns Hopkins study "not totally inconceivable...