Word: arbors
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DIED. LESLIE KISH, 90, statistician who formulated, among other things, the "margin of error," an assessment of the accuracy of opinion polls; in Ann Arbor, Mich. Kish used his new population sampling techniques in 1948 to predict a narrow Truman victory over Dewey--when almost everyone had forecast a Dewey landslide...
...likely to be clouded by an individual's personality and biases. It would be reassuring to know that when God speaks to our politicians, they are indeed hearing the real word of a benevolent, omnipotent spirit and not merely invoking God as a propaganda tool. ROBERT L. JOYNT Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Gore's underwear remains a secret after his stint on MTV's (and TIME's) "Choose or Lose" 2000 Forum, in which an assemblage of 150 college-agers in Ann Arbor, Mich. (yes, that's a swing state), got to very slowly pepper the veep with whatever questions they'd gotten past the show's producers. Gore, strutting on the stage like a frontrunner, came through fine - well-spoken, well-read and reasonably cool. If there was no shining moment, there was also nothing in the performance to burst his current bubble...
Tuesday Al Gore came to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for a youth forum with MTV and TIME. While the veep has taken to dressing down, he didn't totally go Joe College. Instead he looked like a dad who'd shown up early for Parent's Weekend, dressed in khakis, a green button down and tie-up shoes (but sans Palm Pilot...
...Michigan game, Pendergast and two friends flew to Las Vegas on March 1 and bet $20,150 with the sports book at Caesars Palace that Northwestern would lose that night by at least 251/2 points. When Pendergast phoned Lee in Ann Arbor and conveyed that number, Lee was reluctant to go ahead because "the spread was too high." But Pendergast, according to court papers, was insistent, and to sweeten the deal offered to double Lee's take to $8,000. Only then did Lee agree...