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...Propagating the false idea that some groups face an unfair bias in casting will only discourage people from auditioning in the first place. Those who do not at first find instant success should not be disheartened by a process that is inherently competitive for everyone, regardless of race, creed, or level of experience...
...academia make a clean break. The facts, they argued, justify their outrage. Of Harvard's 8,900 professors and lecturers, 1,600 admit that either they or a family member have had some kind of business link to drug companies - sometimes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars - that could bias their teaching or research. Additionally, pharma contributed more than $11.5 million to the school last year for research and continuing-education classes. The Times covered these details in its stories and included the damning fact that during the November demonstration, a Pfizer employee was on campus photographing protesters with...
...Political bias has dogged the UN investigation since its inception. It is widely held that the UN investigation owes its existence to the interests of the U.S., which saw it as a useful tool to pressure Damascus into better behavior in Iraq, cease meddling in Lebanese affairs and to drop its backing for militant anti-Israel groups such as Lebanon?s Shi?ite Hizballah...
Human beings are irrational about dreams the same way they are irrational about a lot of things. We make dumb choices all the time on the basis of silly information like racial bias or a misunderstanding of statistics - or dreams. Morewedge and Norton quote one of the most famous modern studies to demonstrate our collective folly, from a paper written by psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman that was published in Science in 1974. In that paper, Tversky and Kahneman discuss an experiment in which subjects were asked to estimate the percentage of African countries represented in the U.N. Before...
...even if the stimulus gets states like Florida off the affordable-housing hook in the short run, will it do enough to make low-income shelter a national priority again in the long run? To critics, the Florida legislature's decision reflects not just fiscal necessity but a cultural bias against affordable housing that has grown since the Reagan era and got outright absurd in recent years. At the turn of the century, Florida was averaging about 10,000 new affordable-housing units per year; today it's about half that. Some Florida towns have even enacted minimum square-footage...