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...team at Yale, likened the data-collecting process to a clinical trial for a new drug. "In a clinical trial, one group gets the medication and one group gets the placebo," he says. "We're using the same research design, only [instead] of medication we're using phone calls, direct mail, canvassing and other means of contacting young people to get them to vote." The results are then compared to the "placebo" group, who get no targeting...
...march's organizers had sought to prove that Hong Kong's denizens remain hungry for universal suffrage: currently, the Chief Executive and much of the legislature are chosen by small groups of business leaders friendly to Beijing. (Tsang has said the issue of direct elections "will be resolved" during his current term in office, which expires in 2012.) But with the economy booming, it has become harder to make a case against the status quo. Police and organizers quibbled over the number of attendees at the demonstration, placing it somewhere between 20,000 and 70,000, but either...
...Except when it doesn't. Reiss (a longtime Simpsons writer-producer) does the Queer Duck scripts on his own, and Feinberg designed and animated the original short films at home on his iMac. It takes all of six days for Trey Parker to write and direct, and with Matt Stone produce and provide most of the voices for, an episode of South Park. James L. Brooks told me that Matt and Trey are the only geniuses working in TV, and who am I to disagree with the guy behind Mary Tyler Moore, Taxi and The Simpsons (and Terms of Endearment...
...report adds a third company, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, to its list of companies to divest from. Although Harvard does not have a direct stake in ONGC, it does own more than $1.5 million worth of shares in the company through funds managed by the Blackstone Group and the British Bank Barclays...
After taking the position with Lula’s government, Unger retracted these criticisms, writing again in Folha de S. Paulo, “I was wrong. The facts demonstrated that the president had no direct or indirect involvement in those episodes...