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Other researchers dispute Hirsch's study. George Gerbner, dean of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania and a leading theorist on TV's influence, calls it "interesting but flawed." Gerbner and his associates say that Hirsch misused statistics on TV watching from the National Opinion Research Center by basing his conclusions primarily on data about the heaviest and lightest viewers, who compose only 6% of those polled. Gerbner says that Hirsch is just "nibbling around the edges to discredit what is an ongoing study in the field." Perhaps the only firm conclusion possible...
...when the upturn would begin. Investors have thus increasingly turned to popular stock market newsletters that tell them which stocks to buy and when. The hottest tip sheet of them all is the Granville Market Letter, published in Holly Hill, Fla., by Joseph E. Granville, 57, a controversial market theorist who has combined a good record for calling major stock moves during the past six years with a Barnum-like flair for self-promotion. Some 11,000 subscribers pay $250 a year to read Granville's market wisdom...
Some physicists greeted Reines' findings with skepticism. Said Theorist Chris Quigg of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside Chicago: "It's a brute force, heroic effort rather than an elegant experiment with lots of internal checks." But none denied that if Reines' case can be confirmed, it will have wide-ranging implications...
...help dramatize the nature of the United States' dealings with the Third World. But some people seem more anxious to satisfy their autumnal and luxurious desire for innocence than to advance a position within their own country. Their campaigns begin and end in handwashing; Pontius Pilate is their political theorist. Those of us foreigners who admire the American people for their characteristic qualities of good faith, generosity, and rule-breaking inventiveness must hope that this is not the end of the story. Far-reaching dissent must be combined with the development of a constructive strategy and vision. How else...
...Walzer is the best political theorist in America and a great guy," Judith N. Shklar, professor of Government, said yesterday, adding. "We hate...