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Enter Senator Helms, who helps pilot a conservative group called Fairness in Media, which launched a campaign in January to buy CBS stock in hopes of changing what it considers to be the network's liberal bias. Fairness in Media obtained a list of stockholders two weeks ago, but the names came too late to wage a proxy fight at the company's annual meeting next week. Turner has met twice with the group's representatives, but the two as yet have not linked forces...
...quest for authenticity, Schwab is uncompromising in his attack on shallow Oriental exoticism. He reveals his anti-aesthetic bias against the French Romantics, toward whom his brilliant criticism is considerably less kind. He denounces their tendency toward "formal creation." The chapter, "An Extended Orient: Exoticism" criticizes at length the borrowing of imagery by the French as sheer indulgence. Gautier's Avatar is dismissed as the work of an exploitive dilettante with a "strikingly apparent gift for painting generalized pictures." Similarly, Hugo's Orientales is dismissed as "meager picturesque Orient imposed upon Montparnasse landscape...
...st.John's faculty or officials could be reached for comment. But a White House spokesman said Friday that Reagan's comments were not intended to indicate that Harvard is too old, despite its 349 years, or any sort of anti-Harvard bias on the part of the Administration
finalist, Moses stressed that the result of the balloting do not reflect a bias against Harvard in the Brown senior class
...than in theory. This is already obvious from their choice of words. Reagan finds it hard to call the good guys rebels. Instead, he insists on calling them "freedom fighters," a heavy, inconvenient term, with an unmistakable socialist-realist ring. "Freedom fighters" practically announces itself as a term of bias. Rebels, Mr. President. With practice, it will get easier...