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...fallibility of preprimary polls leads some to dismiss their utility altogether. Says Lucien Haas, an aide to Senate Majority Whip Alan Cranston of California: "The polls are absolutely worthless." That is an exaggeration. The real problem is that since polling can assess the views of a body of voters but not which of those voters will actually vote, a preprimary sampling is only an approximation of what is likely to happen. Any politician or pundit who attributes to such a poll more accuracy or importance than it can realistically have does so at his own risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Those Worthless Polls | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...mere police report is that the alleged father faces possible trial under both Iranian and Islamic law. For the crime of fornication with a virgin, he could receive three to 15 years imprisonment under civil law, and a public flogging of up to 100 lashes with a whip under the religious code. The embassy militants now say they are "prepared to hand [the Marine] over to the revolutionary prosecutor's office to be questioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Honor over Life | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

FORTY MILE per hour winds whip across the Ellipse, where Greyhound after Greyhound is disgorging Communist after Libertarian after Democratic Socialist after backpacked unaffiliate. Flags snap in the gusts--bright red banners for members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, who also carry posters bearing the face of Chairman Bob Avakian. They lockstep around the park, a march within a march. chanting "You Can Take This War and Shove It Up Your Ass, I'm Going to Fight for the Working Class." The wind spins the noise around in circles--without moving, you can hear the cries of the yellow-flag...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Revolution Number Ten | 4/3/1980 | See Source »

...illness struck one of Harvard's key performers, David Lundberg, the week before the championships. But the most significant reason for Harvard's relatively poor showing has to be that the Crimson chose to shave down earlier in the season to whip Indiana in their highly acclaimed dual-meet battle. The psychological effect of a shave-down is rarely effective more than once in a given season, and to expect lifetime best performances in the weeks following such a shave is simply not a reasonable presumption...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Crimson Whips Princeton, Finishes in 16th Place | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

...virtually nonexistent among lesbians, but relatively frequent in homosexuality because of "the additive effect of two males together." In Tripp's view, the average heterosexual who wants to play sadomasochistic games with his wife or girlfriend will be disappointed. Despite the male fantasy of a masked, booted, whip-wielding beauty, most women seldom want anything to do with SM. In male-to-male relationships, there is no such shortage of players, and leather bars make them easy to locate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: The Gay World's Leather Fringe | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

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