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...fact is that a poll, like a photograph, is accurate ' only at the moment it is taken. Moreover, there is usually a lag of a week or two between the time that interviewers ask their questions and the time that the results are analyzed and published. In the interim, public attitudes may be radically changed by all kinds of events. Although the latest Gallup poll shows Robert Kennedy's popularity declining, for example, this reading may be outdated because it was taken before Kennedy's primary victories in Indiana and Nebraska, which in turn may be outdated...
...recruitment. It endorses the use of ad hoc committees (groups of scholars outside the department who are called in to approve or reject a department's candidate for a tenured position). But the report deplores what it bluntly calls "the glacial tempo" at which these committees operate. In the interim between first contacts and final ad hoc committee approval a man is often offered huge salary increases by his present employer and turns down Harvard. The report documents in exhaustive detail the complicated recommendations for multiple appointments or departmental restructuring that have started to come...
Perhaps realizing that they needed a little experienced help, the new junta, including not only sergeants but privates and police patrolmen as well, summoned home Colonel John Bangura, a counselor in Sierra Leone's Washington embassy, to head an interim ruling council. As second in command, the junta brought home Lieut. Colonel Patrick Genda, the ambassador to Liberia. As they arrived in Freetown, both men were greeted by happy crowds clutching signs that read "Welcome to Freedom" and "Welcome, Our Saviors...
...brought stories that the findings of the more radical staff members had been surpressed. In December, Gary T. Marx, associate professor of Sociology, wrote an angry letter to the New York Times, complaining that he had been fired from the Commissions research staff after turning in a very radical interim report...
However, on later examining the list of people who were let go, "for financial reasons" according to the Commission, Marx admitted he could find no pattern. "I am very impressed by the honesty of the Report," Marx said. "It contains at least as much as the interim report...