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While Abeel says that she has noticed fewer students than she would have expected, and has been surprised by the lack of involvement by many undergraduates, Bloomfield commented that certain speakers drew a larger turnout...
...Congress showed up at the State of the Union address with their own digits dyed purple. On election day President Bush woke at 5 a.m. to watch news reports of how the vote was going. After his advisers told him that early indications showed higher-than-expected turnout, Bush stayed glued to the results. "For millions of Iraqis, it was an act of personal courage," he said, "and they have earned the respect of us all." Even the insurgents appeared taken aback by the outburst of people power: there were no major attacks anywhere in Iraq in the two days...
...week that of the 136,000 Iraqi security forces that have so far been trained, only 40,000 are fully combat ready, able to "go anywhere in the country and take on any threat." In Washington, an e-mail making the rounds reminded those U.S. officials heartened by voter turnout in Iraq that in 1967, U.S. officials were heartened by voter turnout in South Vietnam too. Even in Baghdad, the defiant spirit of election day was no match for common sense: the morning after the vote, the kids were off the streets. --With reporting by Matthew Cooper and Elaine Shannon...
...Numbers 57% Estimated overall voter turnout in Iraq's elections 10% Estimated turnout in the northern city of Mosul, a hotbed of insurgent violence...
Lawrence E. Adjah ’06, president of the BSA, dubbed the event a success, saying, “The audience was very engaged.” He praised the high turnout but added that the small setting, at the Barker Center’s Thompson Room, remained “communal and intimate . . . exactly what we wanted...