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...Bureau had suggested a way to avoid this undercount, using statistical techniques to determine a more accurate estimate of the total population. Unfortunately, these techniques (known as "statistical sampling") were banned last year by a GOP Congress concerned that the minorities and inner-city voters who comprise a disproportionate number of the undercounted would elect Democrats and that more accurate numbers would threaten Republican seats. (The same Congress later attempted to include the census as an "emergency" appropriation, presumably because no one could have predicted that the year 2000 would come exactly ten years after 1990.) The Supreme Court ruled...
There are also a growing number of websites that search book vendors for user selections and return a list of the best prices available. Such sites, which include Collegebeans.com and Limespot.com, receive a percentage of sales revenue for each book sold through their site...
...been emphasizing used books," says Coop President Jeremiah P. Murphy '73. "Price is always an issue for students, so we've been trying to bulk up the number of [used] titles we can offer students...
...time, oratory was central to undergraduate life. At some schools, this tradition remains: Princeton's Whig-Clio, Yale's Political Union and Oxford's famed debating societies all host regular debates on campus, and a fair number of students participate...
Towards the end of the final stanza, the Crimson began to take a number of slap shots from the point, but Connor had no problem holding the deficit at seven...