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...complex matter to "build a case for the point you make." Once when Rather gave him five minutes to talk about an Alaska pipeline bill, Moyers concluded: "On this bill, the two-party system was not up for grabs. It was up for sale." Strong stuff. Delighted, Ralph Nader's reformers sent every Congressman a copy. But listen to the CBS code of standards: The analyst's "function is to help the listener to understand, to weigh, and to judge, but not to do the judging for him." Moyers says: "I try to stay on this side...
...early 70s people took greater notice of the ethic. Implications of some of Harvard's investments Campaign GM, a Ralph Nader supported group of lawyers pushing the democratization of the auto industry, asked Harvard for support The Gulf Angola Project wanted the University to use its influence as a major investor in the Gulf Of Company to help get the firm to move investments out of Angola which was then an embattled Portuguese colony. Through the shareholder resolution process, these groups wanted to pressure these large corporations into being more socially aware...
Past winners of the annual award include Joe Alex Merris '49, who was killed while covering the Iranian revolution, journalist and author David L. Halberstam '55, and consumer activist Ralph Nader...
Life is not, of course, always so easy at the College Board. The SAT got in trouble about three years ago, when Ralph Nader and some colleagues accused the Board and ETS of using biased test questions, loading them with arbitrary or down-right incorrect answers, and keeping too tight a stranglehold on college admissions and education in general with the statistics they spewed out. Under pressure from Nader and others, New York State passed a "truth-in-testing" law requiring that the tests be gradually "demystified...
...know what the problem is." Klitgaard said of the Nader and Nairn reactions, adding that the disagreements about prediction are not so much about the actual statistics as what admission offices should do about them. Critics of testing recommend eliminating standardized tests altogether, and "try to imply that it makes no difference [in prediction] whether you use scores or not." Klitgaard said Such an approach "masks idealogical value questions in a scientific aura," he added...