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...doors in Noorvik, Alaska, the first stop in an epic attempt to count everyone in America. Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution calls for an "actual Enumeration" of the population every 10 years in order to determine how many Representatives each state gets in the House. The survey has also collected data on occupations, education and housing, among other subjects. The first Census, in 1790, was mainly a head count of free, white, draft-eligible men. Later queries were sometimes absurdly specific: in 1850, data collectors were instructed to "ascertain if there be any person in the family...
While no final decisions regarding class curricula have been made, Claybaugh hopes to teach a survey of the bildungsroman—which translates to “novel of education”—around the world...
...Kaplan, the director of the survey, told The Crimson yesterday that although outreach by development offices is crucial for long term success, it is less integral in determining donation levels in the short term...
...tangle with the GOP machine and in the meantime reaffirm a progressive vision for America, coupled with tangible results. The President’s comment two weeks ago that the administration forgot to speak directly to the American people and their core values is dead-on. A post-election survey by Democratic pollster Peter Hart found that Senator Brown was elected primarily because Massachusetts working-class independents didn’t think the Obama administration was doing enough to address their economic concerns. Folks are upset at a lack of both efficacy and backbone. Democrats have to discard the image...
...views. And his social-media presence generated 10 times more Facebook fan-page interactions than Coakley's, according to a study released by the Emerging Media Research Council. As a result, Brown's name recognition zoomed in the closing days of the race, to 95% in a Jan. 14 survey from 51% in a Nov. 12 survey by Suffolk University...