Word: polle
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...Speckhardt says, "is to attract the interest of those who already believe as we do. We're not trying to convert people." Referring to a recent poll, he notes that more Americans view themselves as nonbelievers than the population of Jews, Muslims and Mormons combined. "Yet," he says, "you don't see that group having a caucus in Congress or anywhere else. It's a group that's been in the closet. People are afraid to 'come out' to their families and say they don't believe in God." The ads are designed to show lonely atheists that they...
...props? A closer look at the yogi demographics, however, offers clues into purchasing behavior. Yoga practitioners no longer fit the stereotype of weird women chanting the Hare Krishna mantra. They're young: 40.6% of those who do yoga are between 18 and 34, according to a 2008 Harris Interactive poll commissioned by Yoga Journal. They're smart: 71.4% are college graduates, and 27% have postgraduate degrees. And they're affluent: 44% of yogis have household incomes of $75,000 or more (that figure, of course, might be trickling down during the recession). In other words, yogis are yuppies...
...Race-relations experts, meanwhile, did double takes. As recently as 2007, a poll conducted by Bendixen and the California-based New America Media organization had found that a majority of Hispanics and blacks preferred to do business with whites than with each other. But in a Gallup survey last year, about two-thirds of each group suddenly said they thought their relations were good. "From a Hispanic perspective, Obama's election didn't just mean that a black man could be President, but that any minority person could," says Freddy Balsera, a Miami-based consultant who headed the Obama campaign...
...tooth-and-claw campaign for the poetry professorship might also be described as Darwinian. The front runner, West Indian poet and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, withdrew his candidacy four days before the poll after the resurrection of 1982 allegations that he sexually harassed a Harvard student. Appearing in the British media, those charges found their way to Oxford academics in anonymous letters. Walcott's withdrawal left two hopefuls, Padel and the Indian poet Arvind Mehrotra, to compete for the support of Oxford's senior staff and graduates, all of whom are eligible to vote for the professorship. There had been...
...award three years ago for her first feature, Red Road, and Park snagged the Grand Jury prize in 2003 for Oldboy. But the really startling awards were in the supporting categories. Kinatay, which depicts the torture, beheading and dismemberment of a prostitute, was almost universally reviled. In the critics' poll for Film Francais magazine, this grotty little melodrama from Brillante Mendoza, the forlorn hope of Filipino cinema, was given the lowest rating of any official selection. But somebody must think that Mendoza really is brilliant. "It's not a dating film," one jury member, playwright and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi, acknowledged...