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Awarding Garza the Vice-Presidency on the basis of a minor technicality of parliamentary language was akin to awarding a proven thief his freedom on the basis of a minor typographical error in the arrest report; the difference is that under the law technicalities preserve freedom and the rights of the innocent, while under the council's decision technicalities preserve and reward ignorance, injustice and irresponsibility. Garza's "victory" is a hollow one at best, both personally and for the council as a whole; it serves as yet another reminder of UC ineptitude and casts a dark shadow over...
...weeks earlier, and the proportion of those "not sure" increased from 12% to 21%. Responses to some more detailed questions indicated worse trouble: 36% thought increased federal involvement in the U.S. health-care system would make that system worse, vs. 33% who foresaw improvement (given the margin of sampling error, that amounts to a statistical tie). More striking still, 29% thought the plan would leave them and their families "worse off," vs. only 20% who expected to be "better off"; 48% anticipated little change...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 500 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Oct. 28 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 500 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Oct. 28 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus...
...essential difference in philosophy underlies the confrontations at issue here. Journalists commit themselves to the idea that diffusion of knowledge is a great virtue. Though many in the public question newspapers' judgments on delicate issues, journalists adhere to this bottom line: if some error is inevitable, always err on the side of giving the people more information...