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Cash, the only Black member of the starting lineup simply shrugs off the thought that minority athletes face disadvantages because of alleged bias or racism on the part of the team's coaching staff...
...current bias of the U. N. has shown itself time and again. It has not been a force for world good in many years now, and has greatly soiled its legitimacy by making anti-Zionist attacks one of the only agenda items on which it can approach consensus. But that is hardly the issue anymore...
Nonetheless, the A.A.O. has expressed fears about the "safety and efficacy" of R/K, much to the annoyance of Fyodorov, who says, "They are afraid of new technology." Bores attributes the resistance to a bias against new procedures espoused by doctors in private practice, as opposed to those "in the hallowed halls of academe." Among the A.A.O.'s concerns about R/K is the fact that results can vary widely from surgeon to surgeon. In addition, little is known about the long-term impact of R/K: patients may ultimately be high-risk candidates for cataracts or other problems. "R/K decreases...
...greatest difficulties in getting to the heart of some minority students' complaints is that they deal with a highly subjective question, subtle bias. It would be difficult to quantify as subjective a quality as how much "encouragement" a coach gives different players. And while many minorities complain about being played less frequently in relation to their talents, Reardon points legitimately to the danger of second-guessing. Difficult decisions on playing time, he says, are exactly the coaches job. Almost as difficult is sifting through the complaints to find out which of the perceived biases are actually racial. A truism...
...mortal enemy ... is the plain, dumb, silly mistake"; and discusses subjects as disparate as American literature, fatherhood and literary correspondence: "Everybody who has dominion over any kind of press space spends considerable time answering letters from convicted felons." On all of them he is diverting and refreshingly free of bias and political cant. The sea seems to affect him as it does the crew: disagreements on board-political, navigational and aesthetic-dissolve in a common affection for sailing...