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...homosexuality is not the only factor, the Justice said. Same-sex bias might spring from "general hostility" to one's own gender. And motivations aside, it's enough to show that the accused "treated members of both sexes in a mixed-sex workplace" differently. Says UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh: "If you can show that they would never do this sort of thing to a woman, that's enough...
TIME's story on the Hollywood Free World Association v. the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals indicates no editorial preference for either organization but reveals in comic style an anti-Hollywood bias. We film-makers realize our community is a gorgeous subject for satire. We grant, or anyway most of us do, that we are the world's funniest people. You can write more jokes about us than you can about plumbers, undertakers or Fuller brush salesmen. Hollywood is guilty of deliberate withdrawal from the living world. It seeks to entertain, and we suspect that...
...There seems to be a bias towards a substantiveperson become secretary general," she said. "Idon't think we're giving enough consideration tothe non-substantive side of our conference...
...good alternatives. The judicial tradition, for example, puts faith in the ability and courage of tenured judges to make decisions on the merits, to articulate them fairly, to disclose and submit them to review, and to recuse themselves when they are, or even appear to be, incapacitated by bias. I commend this model to attention for purposes of thinking how a revised University process might actually work...
...monolithic educational system that is not sufficiently servicing the limited English proficient (LEP) students it claims to help. (The program at present is so convoluted, it puts the Core to shame.) Unfortunately, the proposed alternative is no less monolithic and carries with it undertones of racism and anti-immigrant bias to boot. Although it is clear that the existing system is misguided and badly applied, that Proposition 227 is seen as the best alternative is testimony to the utter disappointment parents have in the present public education system...