Word: reporte
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...York Democrat is a former Harvard professor with a knack for stirring up controversy. As Assistant Secretary in Lyndon Johnson's Labor Department, he kicked up a fuss by issuing a hotly disputed report on female- headed black families. Five years later, as Richard Nixon's adviser on domestic policy, he urged "benign neglect" on racial issues, meaning that the Administration should let racial controversy cool before launching new civil rights initiatives. In the case of Social Security, Moynihan admits that he was out to attract notice through the political equivalent of hitting Congress over the head with...
More recently, however, the news from Gallup has not been so encouraging. In a report published last November, the 16 news organizations rated in the survey had collectively lost 9 percentage points from their believability. By at least one standard, journalism was not doing so badly: among individuals and institutions rated, only Pope John Paul II was found to be more believable than the media. When the poll was narrowed to specific news organizations and journalists (including the Wall Street Journal, Cable News Network, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather and Ted Koppel), several actually outscored the Pope -- and left President Bush...
...Adam Clymer, who at the time was the paper's polling specialist, explained that there was "simply no decent track record." No one could predict with confidence exactly which and how many of New York's registered voters would actually go to the polls. Why, then, did the Times report on polls carried by others? "These polls were part of the equation," says Clymer. "People were talking about them." In short, though the Times had little confidence in the surveys, polls have assumed such a central roll in elections that ignoring them was not a real option...
Hath Rank No Privileges? Part 2 Steiner's seal of approval also did not carry much weight with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences this week. At a meeting this week, the full Faculty voted to send back to his office major sections of a report on free speech guidelines prepared by Ford Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye. Steiner's office has already reviewed the report twice, but there's always room for improvement...
...President Derek C. Bok, criticizing the guidelines of the Nye report...