Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inevitably, there are criticisms. One is that the absence of women among the study's directors could have skewed the questions. Doubts have also been raised about whether personal interviews could elicit truly candid answers to intimate questions. In addition, the sample is too small to look in detail at some groups, like homosexuals. But their careful work, the team writes, "has convinced us that this sample is an excellent one from which we can make generalizations about sex in America." And, they emphasize, "we do so with confidence...
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, standing behind a bulletproof shield on which his security detail insisted, pleaded with Haitians to remain calm after enraged supporters killed one man and torched 15 buildings last night. The attack on Gonaives, 100 miles north of Port-au-Prince, followed a false rumor that junta holdover Major General Jean-Claude Duperval -- the Haitian army commander until Aristide names a replacement -- had led a coup against Aristide. This morning the reinstalled President underscored his plea by having Duperval help him raise Haiti's flag at the National Palace. Also today, U.S. forces reported the third suicide...
...amazing technical skill with which they were painted. Most notable is "The Slate" of 1890-94 by John Haberle, in which the entire canvas is painted to look like a chalky slate, complete with a wooden frame, and, as the label points out, uses scientific precision and detail to create a canvas that appears messy and smudged...
...Directory is Harvard's internal "white pages," accessible only by members of the Harvard community (outsiders can extract only limited data from the directory). The database software is from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, and has been loaded with personal information about every student at a level of detail much greater than "finger" searchers can provide...
...used; Edward R. Murrow pretended to "drop in" on celebrities in Person to Person. Manipulating quiz shows to affect the outcome was hardly new -- or surprising. Two years before Van Doren admitted his sins, Time ran a story that began, "Are the quiz shows rigged?" and went on to detail ways producers stacked the deck in favor of certain players, like posing questions in a contestant's strongest area of knowledge. Fooling the public is a venerable show-biz tradition; the quiz-show producers found out, to their dismay, just how much fooling the public was willing to accept...