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A University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll released Monday shows Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee gaining ground in Iowa, moving into a statistical tie for second place with Rudy Giuliani and trailing Mitt Romney. "If Huckabee can motivate religious conservatives to attend the caucuses in large numbers, he may well threaten Romney," said DAVID REDLAWSK, director of the poll. The newspaper is based in New Hampshire.
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The president of the University of California system, Robert C. Dynes, chose Ms. Fox for the San Diego job, which he held until last October. The system's Board of Regents planned to meet last week to ratify her appointment. If approved by the board, Ms. Fox, 56, will take the helm at San Diego in July. She declined to comment until the board's vote.
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Some of the most well-known and accurate prediction markets are the IOWA ELECTRONIC MARKETS, run by the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA's business school, where traders speculate about a variety of political and financial forecasts. With IEM's Presidential Vote Share Market, for instance, political junkies can invest as much as $500 in futures contracts based on what percentage of the popular vote President Bush and Sen. John Kerry will each get on Election Day. Currently, each $1 contract is going for around 50 cents, which means the market is predicting a dead-even contest. The superior performance of the Iowa market reflects one reason why these predictive exchanges work better than simple opinion polls.
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Harvard University's embattled president, Lawrence H. Summers, resigned this afternoon and will be replaced, on an interim basis, by Derek C. Bok, who was president of Harvard from 1971 to 1991. Mr. Bok was chosen to "clean up the mess and make conditions right for the next president," said a senior professor with knowledge of the tumultuous events of today in Cambridge, Mass.
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Arthur Weaver, MD, is Past President of the American College of Rheumatology and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Nebraska. Dr. Weaver has published over 150 manuscripts and abstracts in rheumatology. He is a recipient of the Arthritis Foundation Founders Award, the Mayo Clinic Philip Hench award for excellence in rheumatology and the American College of Rheumatology Pauldine Phelps Award.
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Her boss, Molly C. Broad, president of the University of North Carolina system, gave her a stern warning at the time to deal with the faculty's concerns. A spokeswoman for Ms. Broad says that during the past year, Ms. Fox "has done quite a bit of work to repair those relationships" and "make changes in her management style."
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