"We shouldn't call winners or losers immediately after a debate, " said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

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In my reporting for the story, the closest I came to a system of determining worse and better on the candidate level came from Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, who has pioneered much of the academic work on deception in presidential campaigns.

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King married Martin, she was a classically trained performer who had the skill to become a concert hall singer in the mold of a Kathleen Battle.

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