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...Blackton Portland, Oregon, U.S. Klein argued that polling has become "less scientific and more speculative. It means polls should be trusted only to verify broad shifts ... rather than specific point spreads." Even this may be optimistic, since the flaws in polls may be systemic and not random. I would guess that poll numbers roughly correspond to the category of people who are susceptible to telemarketers. If you rely on a cell phone, have caller ID or are worried about identity theft and privacy, then, respectively, you don't have a phone number pollsters can call, you won't pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/21/2004 | See Source »

...guess I’ll have to put off my work a few weeks,” Peters said. “Until then, the Red Sox are priority numero...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: City Spills into Square To Celebrate Sox | 10/21/2004 | See Source »

...battle betwixt David and Goliath, I would venture a guess that the majority of us would root for David (save a few Ec concentrators), though the pragmatic among us would put our money on Goliath. But it is worth reminding ourselves that to some the Harvard community is a menacing, if not downright nefarious, multi-headed Goliath. Could it be that we, who fashion ourselves David-sympathizers, self-styled brethren of the underdogs, are complicit in the workings of the bigger, older thug-of-a-brother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Cheese With That Whine? | 10/20/2004 | See Source »

...IRAQ "General Shinseki, the Army Chief of Staff, told [Bush] he was going to need several hundred thousand [troops]. And guess what? They retired General Shinseki for telling him that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: The Debates: WHO STRETCHES THE TRUTH? | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

Kerry has seemed the more graceful, intelligent and, yes, likable guy in the first two debates, but there is a threshold he has not yet crossed: he has not demonstrated the political courage necessary to be President in tough times. My guess is that many Americans suspect there is more bad news to come in Iraq and quite possibly on the domestic economy. They are open to the idea of replacing Bush, but not with a politician who shares the President's most basic flaw--a cynical underappreciation of the public's ability to sacrifice, hunker down and directly confront...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Pain? No Gain for Either Candidate | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

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