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...changes have paid off at home. A Gallup poll earned top headlines after finding 95% support for the bid among Beijing residents. But there's another explanation for such favorable results: heavy-handed propaganda. A similar poll showing 87% support outside Beijing went unreported because "it was deemed too low," says Victor Yuan of Horizon Research, which conducted the study. Ordinary Chinese will never read a quote saying the Games "will bring Beijing's corruption to the world's attention," as Zhao Hong, a teacher of Marxist philosophy in the distant city of Kunming, told Time. And they...
...terrorism occurring in the U.S. in 2002, 38 percent thought it was "very likely" and 43 percent said "somewhat likely." Only 27 percent had a "great deal" of confidence that the government could protect them from further attacks; 56 percent had a "fair amount." (Interestingly, in a Gallup poll conducted Sept. 14-15, 41 percent said "a great deal" and 47 percent went with "fair amount." Pessimists numbered about the same...
...public, so far at least, is going along. Polls show strong support for everything from increased government power to detain legal immigrants--82% are in favor, according to a Gallup survey--to military tribunals. Most seem to agree with the blunt logic of Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch. "Yes, the Administration has been aggressive in using all of the constitutional powers at its disposal," he argues, but it's justified because terrorists "are trying to kill Americans--as many as they possibly...
...times of flux, people look for security. For many, that's found in faith. And even in Europe, the world's least-religious region according to a Gallup poll conducted last year, people are now thinking and talking, to God and each other, about their own faiths as well as about what others believe...
...West are also shamefully undereducated or just plain miseducated about the history of countries in the Middle East and, in many cases, about history in general. Michael Parenti, in his book "History as Mystery" (City Lights, 1999), writes that a survey conducted in the 1990s by the Gallup Organization found that about 40 percent of American high school seniors did not know when the Civil War occurred and that most couldn't describe the differences between World War I and World War II. Another Gallup poll cited by Parenti found that 60 percent of adult Americans were unable to name...