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...1990s, the major news networks and the Associated Press formed a polling consortium to cut costs, but this proved disastrous in 2000, when it declared the race for Al Gore around 8 p.m., switched to George W. Bush by 2 a.m. and left the race at "too close to call" by 4 a.m. An embarrassing computer glitch in 2002 prompted a switch to the NEP, which surveys early voters by phone, uses confidential questionnaires in the field and employs a diverse group of pollsters to ensure an accurate count. A leak of NEP data in 2004, however, prompted the creation...
...Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. It's weird, listening to a ventriloquist and his dummy on the radio - how can you be sure Bergen's not cheating? - but the two of them are funny enough. A few minutes pass before some joker of a singer comes on. Time to switch the dial. All you want's the dummy...
...students will finish their last year under the old system, which has nine categories spanning A+ to F. Second-year students, whose fate in the transition was most uncertain, will graduate with a transcript with grades under both systems. They will receive letter grades through this year, and then switch to the pass/fail system as third-year students. Latin honors will be determined by a student’s performance during all three years. In an e-mail sent to the student body, Kagan wrote that delaying the transition until next year for second-year students would allow them...
...harvested far above world demand in recent years; last year's harvest was a record 8,200 tons and this year's crop dipped only slightly to about 7,700 tons, in part because the global food crisis sent the price of wheat rocketing, persuading many Afghan farmers to switch from opium...
...cheaper and easier to use, home movies made on film are becoming rare artifacts. Kate Bergeron, who works in the Harvard Office of Human Resources, also participated in the event and admitted that though she still makes home movies, they are now all on video. For Bergeron, the switch from film to video has had both positive and negative effects. “Though with film there was always the danger you would leave a shutter open and your entire movie would just come out black, with video you just don’t get those happy accidents?...