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...exit poll data that will be used by the media on Election Day comes from one source: the National Election Pool (NEP). The NEP is a consortium of six news organizations: the Associated Press, CNN and the news divisions of ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. It was created in 2003, after a previous consortium of the same news organizations, the Voter News Service (VNS), failed to provide accurate exit poll data in both the 2000 and 2002 general elections...
Bible-based youth ministries at churches around the country are enjoying a similar success. At Shoreline Christian Center in Austin, Texas, youth pastor Ben Calmer vetoed the purchase of a pool table because it didn't further his goal of increasing spiritual nourishment. Instead he started a class in which the young people wrestle with such difficult questions as, Why doesn't God answer all prayers? No one seems to be suffering from the absence of the pool table. Youth membership has doubled, to 160, during the 18 months Calmer has been in charge. Similarly, teens at Covenant Life Church...
...school girls tormenting their cute classmate Takako. But in this version, they jump on top her and make her lunch vegetables squirt out her nose. She decides "I'll open my heart and reach out to them! Then they'll stop bullying me!" Instead they throw her in the pool and force her to eat octopus (the Japanese word for octopus, tako, sounds like Takako). Overnight she sprouts octopus legs and wreaks hideous revenge by stuffing her tentacles into her rival's mouths and popping their eyeballs out from the inside in wildly grotesque panels...
...Harvard men’s water polo team hosted the Northern Championships this weekend at Blodgett Pool. Tied for second place with Iona and Brown, the Crimson entered the fray seeded No. 3, based on a goal differential tie-breaking system. Last time out, Harvard won with 54 seconds remaining in the third overtime period against Brown, the No. 2 seed in the tournament, but the Bears proved a tougher foe this time around. When the last ripple faded, the Crimson had finished where it started, placing No. 3 in the Championships and earning a spot...
...says Alexander M. Rush ’07, vice president of WHRB. All the more reason, he says, to invite help from consultants. “There are a lot of advantages to having organizations that are completely student-run, but one of the disadvantages is a shallow pool of experience and outside perspective,” he continues. According to Stona, this sort of consulting work is “not trying to bring money to a company, but trying to help an organization fulfill...its non-profit mission,” something he hopes the consulting with...