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...these had falsified their data. Gallup explained that one of the primary means of checking interviews--spot checks by telephone--had been ineffective because there are so few phones in Harlem. He didn't explain why two other habitual means of checking--postcards and the so-called "cheater questions"--had failed. The Harlem survey was the first of the 8000 polls Gallup has conducted to be scrapped...
...Mike Hammer in the television series, is now a mercifully un-Hammerlike private eye named David Ross. In the first program, Ross got his work done without resorting to brutality and heman seductions; he impersonated a millionaire gambler in an effort to trap a crooked cardplayer. Ross exposed the cheater and departed, having provided the viewer with a provocative glimpse of a cutthroat poker game. That's all, and that's enough...
...Lopiparo, she was not even a quarter of the way, so he grilled her for two hours until, in tears and near hysteria, she gave him a written confession: "I cheated. Marsha Goldwyn." She retracted next day, but it was too late. She was given a zero as a cheater and was barred from any further Regents exams, a move that effectively blocked admission to college...
Helped by the New York Civil Liberties Union, she sued to reverse the decision, and Queens Supreme Court Justice Lester Holtzman ruled that the state's department of education had denied Marsha due process of law. Emphasizing the gravity of sanctions imposed on a Regents cheater, Judge Holtzman held that the education department should have held a hearing "at which she might defend herself with the assistance of counsel...
...Cheater--Bob Kuban...