in USA Today

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/25/2008 12:18 AM, LanDi Liu wrote:
>Note that according to the poll on the left side of the page,
>"boyfriend or girlfriend" is the overwhelming majority (41%).

For shame!  :-)  That's merely a plurality.  Else, Mboto would no
longer be president of Zimbabwe, and thousands there would not be
dead or imprisoned.

Joel

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