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What the court seemingly ignores, however, is the distinction between neutrality and overt bias in favor of one religion. When the city gives free textbooks or transportation, it is part of a value-neutral effort on the part of the government to treat all religions equally. Jewish schools can receive the free textbooks as can non-denominational private schools. But when the city makes an a priori decision to put up a nativity scene, it is specifically singling out for approval one aspect of one religious celebration from a myriad of beliefs and practices...
...believes the press undercuts the public's understanding of issues because reporters do not learn enough about their subjects and because all writing contains an inherent bias. He cites Time magazine's coverage of Harvard's audit settlement with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) last November--a footnote to a piece on sexual harassment at Harvard--as an example. The one sentence note provoked a page-long mailing to the cc list, which added the magazine as an involuntary subscriber. "Time is acting as a patsy for HHS," Lang says. "They use sex and Harvard to catch...
...Martian jokes, in order to preserve goodwill. This is an absurd suggestion: in addition to making hypocrites of our spacemen, it would call for a return to the old-time two facedness described by White. If Americans refuse to accept the fact that all people (including victims of racial bias) are prejudiced to some degree, they risk losing the ability to distinguish racism from ethnic humor...
...Winter Olympic Games remind us once again that there is no such thing as an impartial judge. Each brings his own prejudice and bias to the competitions, probably without realizing it. I hope that this country will somehow let Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert know that even though the bronze eluded them in their ice-dancing feats, they are brilliant gold to their countrymen...
...within the letter that "a virtual monopoly of political thought and discussion has been achieved by the left wing of the students and faculty" does not stand up to scrutiny. Given that the Harvard Admissions Policy does not take political leanings into account, one would assume that the political bias of Harvard students is at least partially representative of educated American youth. The statement that "those who are conservative or moderate are few in number" therefore suggests that the author's term "leftist" encompasses an extraordinarily broad spectrum of political opinion. Furthermore, if the "conservative and moderate" students and faculty...