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In a recent Boston Globe poll establishing Clinton and Tsongas in the lead, the most notable statistic was the percentage of undecideds, the proportion of registered voters who have not yet made up their minds. That figure--a striking 79 percent--illustrates that almost eight of ten New Hampshire voters...
By the same token, great changes have taken place in the versions of American history taught to schoolchildren. The past 10 years have brought enormous and hard-won gains in accuracy, proportion and sensitivity in the textbook treatment of American minorities, whether Asian, Native, black or ^ Hispanic. But this is...
In the first place, the pseudo-moral attention lavished on this spectacle offends a sense of proportion and priorities. Did Bill Clinton have an affair with Gennifer Flowers? The question must get in line behind real news: drugs and drug murders, AIDS deaths, illiteracy, a population getting dumber, 74,000...
Professor of Sociology Theda Skocpol, a member of the Faculty Council, says Harvard's deficit is smaller in proportion to its overall budget than Yale's.
This wasn't just any car she fell for but a warm, chauffeur-driven cocoon of transit dispatched by Zuckerman to meet her as she returned to La Guardia Airport late one night from yet another fund-raising trip, so exhausted that the auto's "sheltering presence loomed out of...