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...potential successors united, and the resolution was dropped from the agenda. Recently zanu-PF dissidents have been meeting the opposition parties, and have blocked their leader's attempts to call a state of emergency that would allow him to cancel all elections. That means there will be a presidential poll next year. Will Mugabe be the zanu-PF candidate? The very fact that this is a question demonstrates how rapidly his power is ebbing away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endgame in Zimbabwe | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...added that the building was “once voted the greatest building in America by a bicentennial poll of designers and planners...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: City Hall Relocation May Have to Wait | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...laughs at the suggestion that his stratospheric early poll numbers and laundry list of liabilities leave him nowhere to go but down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is Rudy Smiling? | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...Indeed, this belief is so unshakeable that it often defies reality. In a 2005 New York Times poll, 80 percent of respondents answered “yes” to the question, “Do you think it’s still possible to start out poor in this country, work hard, and become rich...

Author: By Will E. Johnston | Title: ‘The Secret’ of Self-Reliance | 3/20/2007 | See Source »

...impose religion via the ballot box. Most voters say that religion seldom or never influences their voting decisions, and voters are far more concerned about officials who pay too much attention to religion than those who pay too little (51 vs. 35 percent in a 2004 CBS/New York Times poll), as the Schiavo backlash reflects...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: A Post-Christian America | 3/16/2007 | See Source »

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