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Afro-Am is a case study in the tradition-bound Harvard tenure system at its worst. A host of institutional defects--the bias against internal promotions, the never-ending hiring searches and the parochial departmental politics--are magnified in Afro...
...petitioner seems to be to assume the worst about those in the academic community. Although it is possible that some evaluators may become less candid as the possibility of disclosure increases, others may simply ground their evaluations in specific examples and illustrations in order to deflect potential claims of bias or unfairness. Not all academics will hesitate to stand up and be counted when they evaluate their peers...
Allegations of unfair promotion policy may not be the only problems within the police force. Robert L. Hernandez, the attorney representing Davis, said his case shows that racial bias is a significant problem within the department...
...Thursdays, the textual stuff: approach, linguistical skill, emotive power, bias, mission. Is the historian willing to call judgement? If so, directly, or through irony (Gibbon), or through emphasis (Macauley). Method of research? Empiricism--footwork--or the pure remove of documents? Even Style: the visual mania of Carlyle; the reasoned compression of Ranke...
EVER since Professor Martin S. Feldstein '61 took over as the chief lecturer for Social Analysis 10, the course has come in for a good deal of criticism, some of it justified, for its alleged conservative bias...