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...polling--surveying people leaving voting locations about the ballots they cast--in the 1960s, and it soon became a common tool to predict winners before votes were tallied. But after NBC reported Ronald Reagan's 1980 victory over Jimmy Carter hours before polls closed on the West Coast, Congress held hearings on whether the practice depressed voter turnout, and networks vowed not to project a state's winners until polls close. (Exit polling is protected by the First Amendment...
...through astringency. Throughout the 1930s, when he was warning of the Nazi peril, he was almost uniformly rejected as a crank. He was not elected Prime Minister in 1940; rather, he was installed by a Parliament that deferred general elections until after the war. And when one was finally held, in 1945, the British people promptly voted Churchill out of office. We need not only great leaders but also a public great enough to accept their leadership. M.L. Cross, STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS...
...submerging their identities completely in the wishes and actions of their husbands and children. When I entered college, women’s dormitories had housemothers, midnight curfews, open-door requirements for dorm rooms, and sign-in sheets for male guests. When I entered graduate school, the female students held their annual meeting to inform newcomers which male faculty could be trusted always, sometimes, or never (we took careful notes). Just a few years later, a prominent professor wondered in a faculty meeting if female graduate students were like the wolf children of Avignon, and never would overcome their unsatisfactory childhood...
...each year’s end, the CitySteppers’ work is showcased in a spring performance traditionally held in Sanders Theatre. The 1983 inaugural showcase delighted then-mayor Leonard Russell so much that he declared the following day “CityStep Day” in Cambridge. Former University President Derek C. Bok was rumored to have joked that he received more letters about CityStep and its impact on the community than about any University initiative...
...students at the Cambridge public schools ever year. The program—operating on an annual budget in the ten thousands—receives the bulk of its funding from its alumni, and CityStep organizes several fundraisers during the school year, such as the CityStep Ball to be held this year...