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...College Board ETS study found that "personal qualities" and extracurricular activities receive far less emphasis than grades and scores in admissions decisions: the NRC, while finding no societal or racial bias in standardized tests, urged colleges to "reconsider" emphasizing or even requiring them for admissions...
...jury candidates considered yesterday, Meyer rejected 25 for reasons of bias or exposure to prejudicial pretrial publicity. The judge excluded one woman from jury because her sister had recently been raped...
...lack of misguided American bias and scholarly egoism, especially from a Harvard professor, make A Compassionate Peace refreshing...
Lauren, like Armani, began as a designer of men's wear, and both started cutting from the same English bias. The man from Milan worked his unstructured radicalization; Lauren stayed as close as possible to tradition, re-establishing and rejustifying it. His clothes, at first, were deliberately evocative of the 1920s and made their way- in a fashion that would both help and haunt him-into the 1974 film The Great Gatsby. More recently, Lauren has looked west for inspiration. His "prairie look" last fall for women, with the hem of a petticoat peeking out from under a skirt...
...even the oldest hands have trouble getting to the truth. Accounts by witnesses are often skewed by political bias or fear of reprisal, and prisoners who might offer useful testimony rarely survive long with the army. When a reporter asked one lieutenant colonel if he had anyone in custody, the officer replied: "We had a prisoner, but somehow he died...