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...have helped discourage arbitrary libel actions against the press by reaffirming the right of appellate judges to conduct their own reviews in such cases. Said Washington Libel Lawyer Bruce Sanford: "This sends a message to libel plaintiffs that they can't go out and inflame the antinews bias of jurors and expect the appeals courts to wink." According to the Libel Defense Resource Center, journalists who are sued for libel lose 83% of jury trials, but win at the appeals level in 70% of the cases...
harming undergraduate liberal arts curricula by fostering extreme competition for grades and a bias towards science courses...
Thomas says that it is unavoidably true that the teaching the Fellows receive will have some bias. "I am a white American male. I've spent some part of my life in developing countries nearly one third. But I was still raised with certain American views and values." He adds, "For these students to be able to identify with Harvard as a premium world institution is very important. It is not the content of the courses, but the knowledge that they as Third World students can come to one of the premium world institutions and make the grade...
...does the indictment of Asian-Americans of socializing among themselves hold much water. The article's conclusion is based on only a few limited examples. Moreover, the tendency of Asian-Americans to cluster in groups might exist because, as Newsweek admits, anti-Asian bias is formidable and thus many whites do not associate with Asians. To the extent that it exists. Asian "isolation" and "exclusiveness" could be more a function of the white majority's discrimination, rather than Asian-American aloofness...
...fairies encounter a group of snobbish nobles, both liberal and conservative. Iolanthe may be dated, but the G&S production never gets bogged down by its situations, and it reveals the timeless hilarity of such stock characters as fairies and nobles who gradually unravel the stereotypes that bias their views of each other...