Assisting The Times in this project was Prof. Asher Arian of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and of Tel Aviv University.

Prof. Helmut Norpoth of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Dr. Michael R. Kagay, of Princeton, N.J., assisted The Times in its polling analysis.

Royalty Share, a firm that provides accounting services to publishers, is assisting The Times in its corroboration of e-book sales.

Dr. Michael R. Kagay of Princeton, N. J., assisted The Times in its polling analysis.

Michael Kagay of Princeton, N.J., assisted The Times in its polling analysis.

Professor Helmut Norpoth of the State University of New York at Stony Brook assisted The Times in its polling analysis.

Fred Wertheimer, the president of Democracy 21, a public policy organization here, assisted The Times by studying the pace of fund-raising in the first six months of 1999 and comparing it with the same periods in the past three election cycles.

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