Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must admit to a certain bias coming to this recording, considering that I intensely disliked an earlier reading of the Brahms Piano Quartets by this same group. In particular, Isaac Stern is showing his age. As a violinist already infamous for his questionable intonation and tone quality, he dooms the ensemble even before recording began...
President Clinton's attorney said that the newly appointed Whitewater investigator has shown his bias and should give up the job. Kenneth Starr, a Republican, criticized the president's recent claim that he be granted immunity from the unrelated Paula Jones sexual-harassment lawsuit. Starr's criticism of the President makes any decision he makes "compromised," said Clinton counsel Robert Bennett. Starr says he'll do his best to be impartial...
...growing list of death-penalty offenses. The price tag for carrying out the law's mandates: $32.4 billion. What's missing from the grab bag is the controversial Racial Justice Act, which would have allowed death-row inmates to appeal their sentences if, using racial statistics, they could indicate bias. That battle was fought, and lost, by the Congressional Black Caucus. The crime bill's biggest winner would be President Clinton, who spent a year lobbying...
Unforgettable villains. Um, well, they're not really unforgettable. Fanatic, but far from unforgettable. Which brings up another point, that of the movie's supposed anti-Arab bias. On the one hand, Cameron is not as sensitive as he could be with matters of Islam and Arabic culture. The terrorists are fairly one-dimensional. On the other hand, they don't seem that far removed in spirit from the group that bombed the World Trade Center. They're terrorists. It's not an easy call, but I don't think the movie comes across as specifically anti-Islamic...
Assistant Professor of Computer Science MargoI. Seltzer '83 says this discrepancy may resultfrom a cultural bias against women in Science morethan the nature of communication on the network."This problem starts much sooner than high schooland college," she says...