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MEANWHILE IN SERBIA ... Every Vote a Winner Poll-weary Serbs, whose efforts to elect a new President have been thwarted three times in the past 15 months due to low voter participation, can finally see light at the bottom of the ballot box. Parliamentarians got round the 50% turnout threshold by simply abolishing it, paving the way for a new election as early as this month...
...turnout was unbelievable,” said Maura Kennedy, Network liaison for Harvard Medical School (HMS). “I walked into the room and there were people packed side to side. You couldn’t get to the table to get a glass of water because there were so many people filling the room...
...Days to Look for Love portrays three girls who bet they can get a boyfriend within a month. It isn't just romances that have fans queuing up. Tusuk Jelangkung (The Undead), a Sixth Sense-style psychological thriller, drew an estimated 1.4 million moviegoers, triple the turnout for a typical Hollywood offering. "Finally we're seeing films that Indonesians can relate to," says Aida Nurmala, who plays a wife confronting infidelity in Arisan!. That means excitement for hot-blooded filmgoers in all rows of the movie house...
While Democrats are feeling emboldened, there is also the very real danger of overplaying their hand. At a four-hour strategy session for Senate Democrats last month, none other than Bill Clinton warned them to "play it straight" with Iraq-intelligence questions rather than make them overtly political. Record turnout in all the primary states so far suggests that the party core is united. "The question is, how do you get that extra 2% or 3%," one Democratic Senator says. "My guess is that taking a meat ax to the President is not how you should go about...
...Ever since Cornel West has left the numbers have constantly dwindled,” he said. “It’s just not appealing right now.” Despite the low turnout, students in the class said that so far, they are enjoying its new format...