Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What barriers do minority performers face inside the audition? Some directors note that they let their vision of a particular character be shaped by the actors who come to audition. "I actually had a slight bias toward a diverse cast," says director Dan Berwick '01. "The main character in Jesus Christ Superstar is a mob of people, and I wanted people who looked different from each other." Fortenberry notes her own decision to cast an African-American woman in a part written for a Jewish woman. "She was the best person," she says. "I decided to be race-blind...
...past, Emerson has been accused of journalistic bias. During the question and answer session, he was questioned about his characterization of the Oklahoma City bombing...
...Governor's Council, an elected body in charge of approving the governor's judicial nominations, voted 6-3 in favor of Marshall. The margin was unchanged from the councilors' stated positions of about two weeks ago, when Marshall was accused of having an anti-Catholic bias and of being unqualified...
...family institutions, grandparenthood is being buffeted by the sea changes of the late 20th century. Working against the free exchange of love are high divorce and remarriage rates, job stresses of dual-career parents (and grandparents), a global economy that puts vast distances between family members and a pervasive bias against age spawned by the American obsession with youthfulness...
Closer to home, former Harvard General Counsel and current Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice Margaret Marshall is under fire for her pro-choice beliefs. First, Cardinal Bernard Law '53, Archbishop of Boston, accused her of anti-Catholic bias for enforcing a Harvard regulation that professors not use University stationery to put forth personal political opinions. And now that the Cardinal has publicly withdrawn his opposition, Massachusetts' largest pro-life organization, Citizens for Life, is protesting Marshall's nomination on the grounds that she once sat on the board of Crittenton Hastings House, a home for unwed mothers that provides...