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...also wonder what kind of effect seeing a man die would have on my views on the death penalty. I'm not usually one to waffle about my opinions, but to be honest, capital punishment is a toughie. I know all the questions--the deterrence arguments, the racial bias arguments, the law-and-order arguments, the what-if-we-make-a-mistake arguments, the cruel-and-unusual arguments, the don't-kill-to-show-killing-is-wrong arguments--but I don't have any answers. Maybe the emotional shock of witnessing an execution would convince me that capital punishment...
...situation grew even murkier when the National Research Council reviewed the battery of general-aptitude tests in the wake of the Justice assault. It found the 12-part exam to be bias-free. But the council also found that low GATB scores tend to be less reliable predictors of job success or failure than high marks, a fact that works against blacks and Hispanics. The reviewers recommended some residual race norming while GATB is refined, a process expected to begin soon...
With serious questions of racial and class bias already swirling around capital punishment, there are concerns that a decision upholding Payne's death sentence will produce further inequities. Hypothetically, the grieving family of a murdered bank president would be persuasive witnesses for the death penalty, while no one would speak for a slain prostitute. Diann Rust-Tierney of the A.C.L.U. is worried that the Supreme Court will "sanction different punishment based on the worth of the victim and aggravate an already pronounced discrimination in the way that the death penalty is applied...
...harder for dance credit. According to Loeb, the response they received from the administration was "we don't do anything at Harvard unless we can do it better than anybody else." Harvard did not feel then it had the resources necessary to establish a strong dance department, and this bias has persisted to the present...
...sound bite. Or, in the outmoded argot of print, a quote. Under the conventions of American journalism, his insight was worthless to him until he could get someone else to utter it, thus conferring on his nugget some spurious authority and relieving himself of any taint of opinion or bias. I could just as easily quote him to the same purpose. Someday I will...