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Peres resolved the impasse with Shamir by ordering a telephone canvass of the entire Cabinet, and won a vote of 13 to 12 in favor of the Weizman trip, with Religious Affairs Minister Yosef Burg of the National Religious Party and Minister Without Portfolio Yigal Hurvitz of the Ometz Party casting the deciding votes. The Prime Minister received the good news as he left a meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy, who is laying the groundwork for a visit next month by Secretary of State George Shultz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Almost Mission Impossible | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

During the campaign this fall, the College Democrats organized weekly trips to canvass in New Hampshire, phone banks to call voters in New Mexico and trips to Sen. John F. Kerry’s Presidential campaign headquarters in Boston...

Author: By Charles F. Pollak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Dems Look | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

...College Dems also encouraged attendees to canvass for presidential candidate John F. Kerry in New Hampshire this weekend. By the end of the rally, which drew 200 people over the course of an hour, more than 100 people had signed...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Dems Rally For Kerry | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

...mishandled the Iraq war. But Shannon is doing much more than exercising his own civil rights: he's also helped register some 200 other Tokyo-based Americans and is leading a group of them to Florida, the state that narrowly gave Bush victory over Al Gore in 2000, to canvass and "do whatever they need us to do to make sure Kerry wins." His ticket is being paid for with air miles donated by a sympathetic American expat in Thailand. Overseas voters "could just sit on the sidelines here," says Shannon. "But we saw what happened in 2000 [in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Battleground | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

...politically correct road movie, but not this one. Instead, the Mise-en-Scene (Best Director) award went to Tony Gatlif, the Algerian-born French auteur of ?Exiles,? about the southbound trip two young people take from France through Spain to return to their parents? birthplace in Algeria. You could canvass critics from Sweden to the Sahara and not find one who liked the movie - but that?s juries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palms Up for Michael Moore, Thumbs Down for Bush | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

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