Word: polle
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Enough has already been said on the topic of the now notorious Mister Chu. The comic strip's readership has spiked from five people (the artists, their mothers and the AAA censor) to approximately 12 people, according to a recent Crimson poll. And, apparently a compromise has been negotiated wherein Mister Chu will morph into a WASP. Thank God for WASPs. In this age of political correctness, where would the art of ethnic lampooning be without them...
Every other week, for as many as one hundred days, the roommates will meet to secretly elect two people as candidates for dismissal from the group. Then, the audience will choose which of the two they no longer want to see via a telephone poll. The last person remaining wins...
...game marked the 100th anniversary of the first Harvard-B.C. baseball contest, when the Crimson edged out the Eagles 8-7 on April 7, 1900...B.C. is ranked No. 1 in the New England Division I poll as of April 10...The game featured several of the quirky rules of college baseball, including pitchers entering a game twice and the rule which states that a batter cannot run to first on a dropped third strike with a runner on first and less than two out. The latter situation caused confusion amongst the coaches and umpires for a few minutes...
...runoff election has walked his country back from the brink, but he's no quitter - and that suggests Peru may be in for a turbulent couple of months. The runoff was announced late Wednesday after electoral officials reported that Fujimori had narrowly failed to achieve a majority in a poll tainted by charges of vote-rigging. But that announcement may be a reflection that the president has been feeling foreign and domestic pressure over charges that he was stealing the election...
...season began, state-controlled media and pro-Fujimori tabloids relentlessly smeared the three opposition candidates, prompting all but Toledo to fall out of the race. "And election observers had warned that with many of the far-flung election booths under military control, there may be attempts to rig the poll," says McGirk. Now, Toledo, who led his supporters' protest march, plans to go for broke in a runoff vote. But Fujimori doesn't give up easily. After all, a president who, like Yeltsin, once used his military to close down an uncooperative Congress isn't going to be spooked...