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...against gays in employment policy and admissions, or permit companies that discriminate against gays to recruit on campus. The Harvard Law School faculty alone passed without question a policy that covers all three areas, and recently enforced it by throwing Navy recruiters off campus because of its anti-gay bias. William L. Fleming, the president of the Committee on Gay and Lesbian Legal Issues, says that the Law School's willingness to guarantee against discrimination grows out of its "liberal legal perspective. A non-discrimination policy is totally in line with their dedication to basic civil rights, and they realize...
McIntosh insists that many women will not be satisfied with the lives they have led until they see the difference between true feminists, "who can define success in terms of a family," and women's libbers, who retain a traditional bias against the private sphere "and view success in the way men always have...
...fourteen years old . . . he has all the ego isolation and drive of a twenty-year-old." These sound like random thoughts, not the shaped statements of a narrator on top of his material. Tremont's treatment of his mother also provokes uneasiness. He seems blind to his bias against her, even though his own words reveal how eager he is to free his father by reining...
Peterson has a case. Faced with the need to save money and increase production, especially of energy resources, the President is more interested in developing land than in preserving endangered animals or ecosystems. Since coming into office he has appointed people with a strong prodevelopment bias to the top environmental jobs. Interior Secretary James Watt, who as a Colorado lawyer used to battle the department he now heads, is only the most prominent example. Another Coloradan, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate Anne Gorsuch made it a practice, as a state legislator, to oppose the EPA'S hazardous-waste...
...National Enquirer. Nobody rushes to defend the shoddy gossiping of the Enquirer-beyond its First Amendment "right" to print it. Even though gossip and personality stories have become a major journalistic trend, the Enquirer does it to excess. The press has other, permanently hostile critics always ready to decry bias in even the most honest reporting. The Janet Cooke case gave Richard Nixon the chance to cry "irresponsible" at the Post, and to add piously: "I hope they do better in the future." Journalists often lament that the public fails to appreciate their role in protecting the public weal...