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...leaning political correctness. Our congressional district has not sent a Republican to Washington since 1955. Not surprisingly, the officers who came to your door—a rainbow of black, Hispanic, and white—were led by a man hand-picked to provide training on the avoidance of bias in policing. To accuse the Cambridge police of racial profiling, as you did, is about as credible as charging Barack Obama with favoring Republicans...
...interviewed were wary of passing judgment on police or the professor without more definitive information, but several said that the professor had been treated unfairly. Kyle A. Martin '11, a proctor at Harvard for the summer, said "it certainly would appear to me to be some sort of racial bias against Professor Gates exhibited by the police officer." And Amaka C. Uzoh '11, an intern at the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, said that she sympathized with Gates and that he did not deserve to face charges from police...
...Israel of spare parts for its Saar 4.5 class corvette, because of the way the missile vessel had been used by Israel during the Gaza operation. An official U.N. inquiry visited Gaza in June and plans to issue its own report in September (Israel accuses the international body of bias and has declined to cooperate with the probe). The latest salvo came on July 15, when Breaking the Silence - a human-rights organization of Israeli military veterans - published anonymous testimony allegedly recorded from some 30 Israeli soldiers involved in Operation Cast Lead. (See pictures of the damage suffered by Gaza...
Having insisted throughout the war that it was taking extraordinary care to avoid civilian casualties, Israel has rejected allegations to the contrary, suggesting they lack a basis in fact and are instead driven by agendas hostile to the Jewish State. But suggestions of bias and hostility toward Israel are a more difficult response when similar claims are made by Israeli soldiers involved in the operation. In March, a group of soldiers who had fought in Gaza told a forum at an Israeli military college of a number of instances in which Palestinian civilians had been killed as a result...
Most lawyers know well Aristotle's famous phrase: The law is reason free from passion. This is the crux of the debate about what kind of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor would make: that judges should rule not from passion or personal bias but with reason and precedent. As she attempts to be confirmed, Sotomayor's greatest asset has proved to be her methodical demeanor, making the hearings reasonably free of passion, and her future, it would seem, free of much doubt...