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...them without tempting scrutiny of his professional performance. On the other hand, of course. Harvard should not hesitate to explore the professional performance. On the other hand of course. Harvard should not hesitate to explore the professional behavior of one of its officers if it has evidence of professional bias...
While DAS was criticized by some for having an ideological bias. HIID receives almost unanimous praise for the reported trust it has earned in the developing world...
...ninth grade, their skills may reach a marketable level. In Chicago, Jonathan Dubman, 14, and Kay Borzsony, 13, have formed a company called Aristotle Software to sell their own computer games and graphics programs. Says Kay: "The nice thing about the computer business is that there is no real bias against children. In the computer magazines, you read articles by twelve-and 13-year-olds." Laura Hyatt, 15, of Ridgewood, helps a stymied local insurance office figure out how to use its software. Says she: "It's better than babysitting." And, at $3.50 an hour, somewhat more profitable...
...deploy rational argument against such dreck? Professor Dominguez's own confession to an "antiquarian and deeply sexist" bias is the same horribly coy refusal to tackle his own destructive prejudices that I have seen again and again among men his age. It has probably constituted the Harvard faculty's most powerful--because unanswerable--defense against what it perceives as the invasion of hordes of Amazonian scholars, armed with Ph.D.'s (and Lord knows who gave them those), shrill voices, and--worst of all--the gall (shall we say) to call a mild-mannered male professor in his own home during...
Publisher Joseph Pulitzer began his career west of the Mississippi, at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, but for years there have been grumblings about an Eastern bias in the coveted awards he endowed. In 1980 the Los Angeles Times made that claim at length in a report by its press writer David Shaw. Indeed, from 1972 through 1981, papers west of the Mississippi won only 17 of 112 Pulitzer Prizes...