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...late-October Quinnipiac University survey underscored this point. Nationally, it showed Clinton being edged out by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, 45% to 43%, within the margin of error. In red states, however, she ran behind him, 49% to 40%, and she trailed, 47% to 41%, in the purple ones. By comparison, Illinois Senator Barack Obama beat Giuliani by a single percentage point (43% to 42%) nationally but held that same margin in the purple states and came within 6 points (45% to 39%) in the red ones...
...what's going on here? "If the sentence is being appealed in Italy, then the [Spanish] court made a mistake," says Cancio. "This was a huge case, and an error might have slipped through." But Queralt believes Bermúdez was justified even if appeals were still going on. "Spain's Constitutional Court changed things a few years ago, ruling in one case that all appeals don't have to be exhausted," he says. "It's enough that the process is under way." Endika Zulueta, Osman's lawyer, sides with Queralt. In an e-mail, he writes, "I will contest...
CORRECTION: Monday's editorial "A Sustainable Dining Hall" incorrectly said that HUDS agreed to use free-trade coffee in response to a student initiative. In fact, HUDS agreed to use fair-trade coffee, not free-trade coffee. The Crimson regrets the error...
...against Harvard, the Tigers had not lost a home match in Dillon Gym since 2005, and this weekend was no different. Top-ranked Princeton out-hit and out-blocked the Crimson en route to a convincing victory.Poor hitting cost the Crimson the first game, as the squad recorded 11 errors and only nine kills for a -.053 hitting percentage. The Tigers, meanwhile, posted 16 kills on .225 hitting, and the result was a relatively easy victory in game one.Both sides stepped it up in the second game, as Harvard recorded 17 kills and a .324 hitting percentage, but Princeton only...
...State Kurt Browning, who oversees the state's elections, was himself an advocate of touch-screen voting as the elections supervisor of the county that includes Tampa. But since then, while he still believes the "DRE system itself" is sound, he acknowledges the system's margin for "the human error factor" has proven great enough to cause the new inertia. "There's not a lot you can do to mess up with optical scanning," says Browning. "We believe we're doing the right thing in Florida...