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Last Saturday's loss to Princeton greatly minimized the Crimson's margin for error and left the team with four games left to win. So far, the status is one down, three...
...there is something. Bush, who has already once in this race found coasting to be a fruitless endeavor, is trying it again after a cluster of potentially self-fulfilling polls - Americans love to pick a winner - showed him emerging from the debate season with a just-bigger-than-margin-of-error-sized lead. A little daylight. Ever since, Bush has been grinning, and the lead has been shrinking...
Some brokerages were poised to send out margin calls early this week, though a rally Friday may have provided a reprieve. Many investors, it seems, became so convinced that prices were cheap last spring that they doubled up, partly with borrowed money. Now lots of stocks are even cheaper. The NASDAQ bottomed at 3165 on May 23, suckered in a wave of new money with a 1,000-point rally, then collapsed in stunning fashion--closing as low as 3075 on Thursday. From the March 10 peak of 5049, the index dropped 39%. In the 17 trading days ending Friday...
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...
Thus far, the defense against Harvard is to wait for the offense to stop itself. Harvard been extra-charitable to its opponents this season, ranking 117th in 1-AA with a minus-9 turnover margin. The Crimson turned the ball over five times last week--and two of those were returned for scores...