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...objectively fair. It's difficult to imagine the authorities in Belgrade conducting a similarly unbiased prosecution, or one that so carefully protects Milosevic's right to defend himself and even cross-examine victims of his alleged crimes. Milosevic's protestations of unfairness ring hollow. Saddam's allegations of political bias resonate more deeply. The Iraqi Special Tribunal is not an international court. It was created - and its judges selected - by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council. Salem Chalabi, the nephew of the once omnipresent opposition figure Ahmad Chalabi, was handpicked by former U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer...
...form of self-censorship in an effort to please their sponsors or in mistakenly believing that journals tend to favor positive results. Others will cherry-pick a narrow slice of data for publication while consigning the rest to the file drawer. Whatever the reason, the result is a bias against negative or inconclusive data that distorts the medical literature and ultimately the practice of medicine...
...alternative class for Social Analysis 10—commonly known as “Ec 10”—the introductory economics course led by Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein. Students assert that Ec 10, which is required of all economics concentrators, has a conservative bias. Barker Professor of Economics Stephen A. Marglin offers to teach the alternative class...
Some personal bias, however, may have made its way into...
...generation of Indian-American hotel owners is also learning, sometimes the hard way, how to play politics. After Sept. 11, ethnic-Indian proprietors suffered a wave of xenophobia, exhibited by signs outside competing hotels that claimed AMERICAN OWNED AND OPERATED. The bias cut into bookings, hurting business in an already devastating climate for travel. Yet while major hotel corporations lobbied for and received relief from Washington, the Asian American Hotel Owners Association had no presence or influence there to follow suit. "We learned from that," says Naresh (Nash) Patel, 38, current chairman of the association and a second-generation hotel...