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...Hampshire voters are a very sophisticated group who expect individual contact with the candidate," said Dukakis's N.H. Deputy Campaign Manager Richard Sigel, adding that Dukakis has the most campaign headquarters in the state and has allocated more than $61,000 to the N.H. effort...
...Hampshire is different from other states in many aspects because of the intensity of the media attention," said Vice President George Bush's Northeast Political Director Ronald C. Kaufman. "We were gearing up much earlier in N.H." will do very well in N.H., but Sigel pointed out that N.H. "has not always been good to its neighbors," referring to Sen. Edward Kennedy's (D-Ma.) 1980 and Edward Muskie's 1972 defeats in the state...
Though still experimental, the reflective-judgment yardstick has attracted the interest of cognitive scholars around the country. One psychologist who edits a journal in the field privately describes Kitchener and King as "on the cutting edge" of as yet uncharted research. Some experts, like Irving Sigel, research scientist for the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., consider the interviews a promising new means for assessing "whether a student has the skills to go about understanding and solving new problems." Harvard's Fischer is particularly hopeful about the potential for measuring the broad-gauge effects of a college education. Indeed, Kitchener...
...Zigler, director of child development for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon Administration, early learning has "no long-term effect on middle-class kids." Zigler caustically condemns hothousing as a yuppie phenomenon, in which parents try to transfer their own hyperambitious goals to children. Irving Sigel, distinguished research scientist at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., asks, "What happens to kids' sense of self when they're valued only for achievement?" According to Marion Blum, of the Wellesley Child Study Center, hothousing may create "very nervous, anxious children afraid of failure and risk taking...
...Sigel: "The best documentaries incorporate the basic elements and principles of drama, just as the best narrative films often incorporate elements of reality. One of the reasons When The Mountains Tremble has been very successful is because it recognized certain fundamental principles of dramatic storytelling and applied them to a documentary format. I don't think people go to the movies to be educated, to get facts and figures; and to be honest. I don't think movies do that very well. What movies are good at is drawing people into another reality...