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Segal said that these modern ideas can help scholars understand the problematic nature of Greek democracy, which allowed for slavery and gender bias...
Testimony during three weeks of hearings focused on allegations that Gates knew more than he has admitted about the Iran-Contra scandal, and that he slanted intelligence reports to fit the administration's hard-line anti-Soviet bias...
...legislation would have allowed gays who believe they have been discriminated against to seek penalties against employers through the state fair employment and housing department. The law currently applies to victims of bias on the grounds of race, gender, age or physical disability; AB101 would simply have added "sexual orientation" to the list. Businesses that employ fewer than five people would be exempt, as would religious organizations. But the legislation would have covered more than 80% of the state's employees...
...this politically correct prequel, Hawkeye displays the Eurocentric tendencies to hunt and waste. Local Native Americans lecture him on ageism, gender bias, affirmative action and ecological consciousness until he has a nervous collapse, jettisons his rifle and opens a frontier health-food store...
Life-Style. Louis Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services and the highest-ranking black in the Bush Administration, warns African Americans not to exaggerate the effects of poverty and bias on their health. Says he: "The top 10 causes of premature death in our nation are significantly influenced by personal behavior and life-style choices." Sullivan has exhorted blacks to quit smoking, cut down on drinking and lose weight. Such personal initiative, he claims, "could eliminate up to 45% of deaths from cardiovascular disease, 23% of deaths from cancer and more than 50% of the disabling complications of diabetes...