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...League academics may be innovative scholars, but eye-candy they are not, as a www.ivygateblog.com poll to rate the Ancient Eight’s hottest makes all too clear. IvyGate solicited admirers to e-mail in nominations, from which they culled six female and six male candidates whose mug shots they posted online. Even the Ivy Gate editors were a little let down by voters’ choices of Princeton’s mousey Assistant Professor of English Tamsen O. Wolff and Columbia’s unexceptional Assistant Professor of Computer Science Adam H. Cannon. “We really...
...Class of 2006 graduated with a median grade point average between 3.6 and 3.7. The paper asked 400 newly minted Elis to anonymously report their GPAs online, and 50% responded. (Props for noting the response rate could skew the results.) The conclusion's right there in the headline: "Poll suggests grade inflation...
...terror also features prominently in both candidates' stump speeches. Talent regularly projects Republicans as strong and Democrats as weak on national security, while McCaskill hammers Talent on his support for the Iraq War, which just over half of Missourians opposed in a recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch poll...
...President's approval ratings in Missouri hover around 40%. In the biggest statewide issue this fall, Talent opposes a proposed state constitutional amendment to keep stem cell research legal in Missouri, even though the amendment enjoys a 62% approval rating according to the most recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch poll. Still, the latest polls, from late August, found Talent and McCaskill locked in a statistical dead heat, with Talent leading 46% to McCaskill...
...more attractive to the Ossetians and Abkhaz than alignment with Russia. Saakashvili's heavy hints that he might force the issue has allowed Moscow to accuse the Georgian leadership of threatening aggression. And it has certainly helped President Vladimir Putin rally the Russian public behind a nationalist cause. A poll taken by the Moscow-based Echo Moskvy radio station late last month found that 40% of its typically liberal audience believe that Russia's national interests justify any hard line on Georgia. Such jingoism could work as smartly for Putin's as yet unnamed heir-designate as the Chechen...