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...plan to savor the new polls? Spend your time more productively by rearranging your sock drawer. Why? Consider 1984. On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, the New York Times reported that Walter Mondale "now holds the most commanding lead ever recorded this early in a Presidential nomination campaign by a nonincumbent." His nearly 3-1 triumph in Iowa had given him a 57-8 lead in national polls over nearest rival Jesse Jackson. And less than 24 hours later, Gary Hart beat him by 10 points in New Hampshire and turned the contest upside down...
...that poll an anomaly? Not exactly. Four years earlier, on the eve of the New York primary, the New York Daily News showed Carter with a 55-37 lead over Ted Kennedy. Actual results: Kennedy 59, Carter 41. What happened? Pollster Lou Harris explained that "Kennedy benefited from the light vote...
...that's the way it is," Walter Cronkite used to sign off the CBS Evening News. On New Year's Eve in Times Square, his heir Dan Rather might have closed, "And that's the way it appears to be, thanks to the magic of computer imaging." But he didn't. Nor did CBS say it had digitally inserted a virtual logo in the neon adscape behind him, obliterating an existing sign for NBC. In fact, it turns out CBS has used digital image-insertion technology ever since launching the Early Show in November, to plaster that program's logo...
...sense of urgency is the specter of European economic sanctions, which may be imposed as early as next week. "While Europe wouldn't stop humanitarian supplies, sanctions may limit the commercial importing of food," says Zharakovich. And that could raise the domestic political cost of the war on the eve of the March presidential election...
...sort through the details of the case--and, according to some, to look for reasons not to send Elian back--a U.S. immigration officer stationed in Cuba met with Elian's father Juan Miguel at his Cardenas home (without Cuban officials present). They met again on New Year's Eve in the Havana home of a United Nations diplomat. The latter location was deliberate: U.S. officials were worried that Juan Miguel might be manipulated by Castro and wanted a location that was unlikely to be bugged. The goal of the inquisition was to determine just how close father...