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...unique undergrads out of their rooms—and Lamont—with one artist every spring on a limited budget. No doubt this is a daunting task. They could make their own lives easier, however, by increasing transparency in the process of picking an artist. By polling students to determine artist preferences—or abandoning the current structure of Yardfest in favor of several smaller and decentralized performances—the CEB could please more students and increase undergrad involvement in social programming overall. Perhaps the biggest hindrance to the CEB’s ability to implement effective...
Actually, it was none of the above. According to former information minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who spoke to the United Nation's news agency IRIN this week, his party, which is aligned with Musharraf, lost the parliamentary poll "because people were angry over the fact atta [flour] was not available, that food prices were high, and due to this they felt insecure." It's a familiar lament in Pakistan these days. "We are worried about terrorism and those other things, but first we are worried about basic needs," says Islamabad nurse Nithat, 24, as she shops in the capital...
...Arizona Senator John] McCain, if he is the nominee, given his statements and his position on Iraq... seems to be the candidate of permanent war and intervention. That is just not the popular position today: 70% of the people want out of Iraq, and even a January 2006 Zogby poll of soldiers found that 72% of the soldiers want out of Iraq within six to 12 months. If he continues with that position, draining the treasury, casualties, et cetera, then he won't be able to keep his electoral position...
...report, released today by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, is the first selection of data from a 35,000- person poll called the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey. Says Pew Forum director Luis Lugo, Americans "not only change jobs, change where they live, and change spouses, but they change religions too. We totally knew it was happening, but this survey enabled us to document it clearly...
...insult usually reserved for locker rooms and school yards. Though the incident took only seconds, the exchange was immortalized on camera and uploaded to the web site of French daily Le Parisien, where it had been viewed nearly a million times by Monday morning. Against a background of sliding poll numbers, the video turned the verbal swipe into a political event...