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...used to be a given that Chavez could count on the lower class, which represents the majority of the population, to turn the vote his way. Clearly, after logging 49% of the vote for his controversial reform, Chavez still has many of the poor on his side. The electoral council has yet to release detailed results that would indicate how impoverished areas voted. But an abstention rate of 44% suggests some of Chavez's traditional support base didn't show up to vote. And, narrow as the vote count was, the rejection of his proposal only one year after...
...team to make a statement after Wednesday’s sub-par outing. While Harvard managed to defeat Dartmouth, the Crimson players did not feel that they have a great showing. “We have bad days like on Wednesday, but we need to make those tough days count for our successes,” head coach Satinder Bajwa said. “9-0 was a crucial thing for our confidence.” Both the coaches and players mentioned the hard work that was put in by the team Thursday and Friday. And the preparation that went...
...Voters should also not be afraid that listing a second choice will affect their first-choice ticket’s chances of winning: their second-place vote will only influence the vote count if their first-choice ticket has already been eliminated...
...word concussion tends to evoke macho images when you're talking about sports: hulking football players flying across the field, crushing their heads into one another's helmets, lucky if they can count their fingers by the end of the game. But brain pain doesn't affect just boys. Ask Christin Anson, a high school junior from Lancaster, Ohio. During a soccer game her freshman year, an opposing player kicked her square in the back of the head. She shook it off and even finished the game. "I just thought I'd have a headache...
...charge. In the end, perhaps Bush’s attitude can lend us some perspective about what we ought to value in America. Instead of striving for scientific progress, revolutionary strides in improving health or even moral integrity, let’s just sit back and count our world records...