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...would also like to add that if students feel disconnected from their council representatives, the Crimson is itself partly to blame. This September, we had the second highest number of candidates running for office—ever. Yet the Crimson focused on the fact that this number was down from last year. When the new council was elected, the Crimson article was not about the newly elected representatives, the pressing new business before the council, or the record voter turnout. The article focused on the fact that a council leader had not been...
Through his three quarters of play, Dawson was limited to 69 yards on 21 carries with a long of only 12 yards. Fitzpatrick had his second highest passing output of the season, with 300 yards in the air on 25-of-41 passing, but only found the endzone once...
...versions”). The impersonations—including additional riotous send-ups of Salinger and Gwyneth Paltrow—rely only partly on an impressionistic array of Matt and Ben-esque gestures, mannerisms and speech rhythms: hence the characters’ delightful confusion over which is the highest form of flattery, “imitation” or “adaptation...
Congress turned out to be tone deaf in responding to the crisis. Not long after the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) asked doctors to vaccinate only those at highest risk of deadly complications--people over 65, pregnant women, young children and patients with chronic medical conditions--the office of Dr. John Eisold, the Capitol's attending physician, was still freely dispensing vaccine. Some House and Senate members defended the practice on the grounds they meet a lot of elderly and sick people and shake a lot of hands--despite the fact that both President Bush and Senator Kerry had announced...
...pollsters decide who is a "likely voter"? This is tricky. Pollsters assign each surveyed voter a score based on the answers to multiple questions (such as "Did you vote in the last election?") that indicate the likelihood that he or she will vote. The highest-scoring voters are deemed "likely." How high a score produces a "likely"? It depends. Pollsters first estimate what the turnout will be on Election Day and then designate the same percentage of their respondents--again, based on highest scores--as "likely." Assumptions of who will vote thus have an enormous impact on poll results (especially...