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CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 413 adult Americans who heard or heard about Limbaugh at least a few times each year taken for TIME/CNN on Oct. 21 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus...
...first-round five-shot lead is about as safe as a San Francisco Giants five-game NL West lead in May...it's not. Bad shots often beget more bad shots, and seemingly safe margins of error can quickly dissipate as repeated psychological blows take their toll (Kinda like the Giants losing eight in a row in September...
Other than that mysterious "these," which looks like an editing error (these love? these choice? these Claude?), there's nothing wrong with those few sentences: one after the other, page after page, they make up a few years of memories from a perceptive, intelligent (if insulated) man, and have that potential which all autobiographies share: to make us more informed about how other people have seen the world. But the Merrill who writes like this is hardly as insightful, let alone as fun to read, as the lyric poet who wrote...
...merit forceful rebuttal. What made the Peninsula issue so sinister was, first, that it shrouded its hateful bigotry in scientific, psychological, theological and philosophical arguments; and, second, that the issue's authors had the gall to insist they were motivated by the humanistic desire to help homosexuals see the error of their ways...
...Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association makes an intellectual error by calling on the University to denounce Mansfield's comments and confirm its own policy of nondiscrimination. The BGLSA presumes that Harvard agrees with the views of its faculty until it proves otherwise by actively distancing itself from those views...