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...Bayrou, 55, has jacked up his unlikely campaign for the French presidency into a real threat to the candidates who had until now been established front runners, conservative Nicolas Sarkozy of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and Socialist Ségolène Royal. A recent poll put Bayrou and Royal in a dead heat for second place. If his rising trend continues, he could beat her in the first round of the elections on April 22. Only the top two finishers will qualify for the second round on May 6, where a few polls even suggest that...
...Schakowsky of Illinois, who has taken a personal interest in Katy Helvenston's story, introduced a bill in the House that would, for the first time, require the creation of databases to monitor the deployment and cost of contractors. Only last fall did the Department of Defense conduct a poll of some contracting companies, which came back with the suspiciously round number of 100,000 contractors operating in Iraq. "An owner of a circus," says Peter Singer, author of Corporate Warriors, "faces more regulation and inspection than a private military company...
...This article consists of a map. Please see hardcopy or pdf.] A recent poll asked people in 27 countries to rate the influence of other nations on the world. The U.S. has fallen sharply in world esteem over the past three years...
...Average of surveyed countries, not including views of subject nation Source: BBC World Service poll conducted by GlobeScan, with 28,389 interviews in 27 countries. Margin of error per country ranges from 3.1 to 4.9 percentage points...
...contemplates who will carry Reagan's mantle into November 2008. "We're in the political equivalent of a world without the law of gravity," says Republican strategist Ralph Reed. "Nothing we have known in the past seems relevant." At the top of the Republican field in the latest TIME poll is the pro-choice, pro-gay-rights former mayor of liberal New York City. Giuliani's lead is as much as 19 points over onetime front runner McCain. But neither Republican manages better than a statistical tie in a hypothetical matchup against the two leading Democrats, Hillary Clinton and Barack...