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...Cambridge, the issue of the Commonwealth Day School's departure was anything but over. Fueled by an onslaught of media attention, city residents and local politicians were quick to point to the school's racial composition as evidence of a serious racial bias in the Brattle St. area...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Allegations of Racism Ignite Citywide Debate | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...while the mayoral commission appointed to investigate the matter found significant evidence of bias, the City Council has yet to take any significant action to address the findings. Stanley Eichner of the Massachusetts attorney general's office says that the state is still conducting its own investigation into possible civil rights violations...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Allegations of Racism Ignite Citywide Debate | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...reward. They continued as we passed between the Edenic Yard, with its manicured lawns and gardens, and Cambridge streets, with their community of the homeless. And some of us nurtured a "liberal intellect" while maintaining membership in clubs long known for their elitism, social exclusivity and sexual and racial bias...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: With Peace and Prosperity Accomplished, Let's Worry a Little | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...youth had fractured the skull of one Vietnamese with a hammer, but in a fight that started after a 13- year-old girl tossed a bottle through an apartment window. Immediately after the fracas, police hung a sign on the Vietnamese victim's apartment building: REWARD. THIS IS A BIAS ASSAULT CRIME SCENE. Wrote Daily News columnist Mike McAlary: "In this moment you can hang the sign on the entire city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broken Mosaic | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...with a great deal of what he says. But even where I share Solzhenitsyn's general thesis, I often find troubling the peremptory nature of his judgments, the absence of nuance and his lack of tolerance for the opinions of others. He displays a marked anti-Western and isolationist bias, at times lapsing into an exaggerated Russian nationalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sakharov: Sakharov And Solzhenitsyn: a Difference in Principle | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

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