Word: bias
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Taylor's reportage packed a special punch because it was his November 1996 article in the American Lawyer that made the first persuasive case for taking Jones seriously. (He called her case stronger than Anita Hill's and blamed the media's disdain for her on class bias.) What followed was a stampede to Jones' side as journalists--who would rather be called anything other than elitists--repented mentioning her big hair and laughing at James Carville's line about the result of dragging "a hundred dollars through a trailer park." Suddenly, Jones was no longer a gold digger backed...
...delivering the court's decision, Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald said Tadic beat his victims "intentionally and with sadistic brutality," using among other things, knives and iron bars as torture weapons. Goran Neskovic, the deputy justice minister in the Bosnian Serb government, objected that the court demonstrated an anti-Serb bias and that Tadic is "not guilty and not a single witness could confirm that he was responsible." TIME's Central Europe Bureau Chief Massimo Calabrisi reports that while Tadic may be small time, the evidence shows he is anything but innocent. As a result, today's sentence will most likely...
...that Texaco will pay out to settle a class-action discrimination claim, or the $500 million being demanded from Bell Atlantic in a suit filed by African-American employees last month. Their complaint, which so far incorporates the charges of 126 workers, runs the entire gamut of possible racial bias on the job, from the crudest slurs--an insulting "Nigger Application for Employment" was left on a copier--to more subtle forms of discrimination. Daniel Clark, a finance manager with an M.B.A., charges he was repeatedly passed over for a promotion. Despite successfully completing a long list of assignments...
...Cultural bias has been weeded out of most standardized tests--the SATs don't ask questions about chablis--and Texas officials insist that the TAAS is race neutral. But even if a test is fair, it can be put to uses that are not. Low TAAS scores, for example, have not been shown to correlate with the inability to do any particular job, but the lack of a high school diploma does correlate with the inability to find work. Should students poorly educated by substandard teachers be further penalized when they can't pass a test? What about good students...
While students inducted said they did not see bias in the Phi Beta Kappa selection process, others said that any discrepancy deserves attention...