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According to a Mar/ 31 Newsweek poll, while 6 percent of respondents said they don’t believe in God at all, 3 percent officially declared themselves as atheist. This subtle yet meaningful disparity suggests that there is still a stigma associated with atheism...
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, when asked by a reporter in Ohio about his feelings that "everybody and their brother does a poll...
...might hold some allure, but the old union still means something to many Scots. An April poll found that 67% would prefer the status quo or more powers to the Scottish Parliament, with only 22% backing independence. An earlier poll, on the other hand, showed 52% of the Scottish public supporting independence - and an even higher percentage of English in favor of Scots separation...
...month before Ahern and will soon step down, unmourned by many who once supported him, was closeted with his Irish counterpart in Scotland, hammering out the final details of the St. Andrews Agreement on Northern Ireland, when Ahern's press secretary delivered the results of a new opinion poll. It had been taken in the wake of a scandal - the Irish media inevitably dubbed the affair Bertiegate - centered on loans Ahern accepted for personal use in 1993 and 1994 when he was Finance Minister. The Taoiseach explained that friends had stumped up the money to help him out after...
...always salubrious for the actors who play the nasties. Anthony Hopkins, who, as Hannibal Lecter, was voted the No. 1 all-time villain in an American Film Institute poll (and who is currently on screens as a cunning wife murderer in Fracture), acknowledges that "audiences are drawn toward the magnetism, toward the darkness. But I don't want to glorify them. There's nothing funny or sympathetic or redeeming about them. And I don't relish playing a guy who's immoral. I've got no kind of buzz off playing monsters...