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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...
...seems that The Crimson, like many others, cannot accept the fact that there are many people who study folklore without "practicing" it. Under the weight of this bias, your article degenerated into there sensationalism focusing on the "weird" in order to make your article more "interesting...
...this phenomenon, for surely at one point it was less of a foregone conclusion that a Harvard-Radcliffe graduate would look to the trinity of law, medicine and business for life-long employment. Some argue that we have witnessed the evolution of a so-called "New Class," with a bias towards hyper-professionalism. Or, we could see the shrunken job market as the primary source of this trend toward steady, lucrative employment...
...endured a long struggle in Washington. In 1987, Warren McCleskey, a black factory worker in Atlanta, brought an appeal before the Supreme Court. McCleskey, who had been sentenced to death in the killing of a white police officer in 1978, argued that sentencing patterns in Georgia proved racial bias. The court fractured 5-4 against McCleskey, even though Antonin Scalia conceded, in a note to Thurgood Marshall, that prosecutorial and jury decisions are influenced by "the unconscious operation of irrational sympathies and antipathies, including racial." McCleskey was executed in September...