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...force Senators to get on the record. Viguerie argues that this is what the New Right is all about. "These liberals aren't used to having their voting records spotlighted," says Viguerie. "We've finally learned not to rely on the media, which has a liberal bias anyway. So we bypass them by mail and TV and go directly to the voters. Democrats don't like that, and they're crying." Viguerie predicts the Democratic screams are going to got louder. "Jesse has an army out there," he says. "and he talks to them almost weekly...
...Media Institute, a conservative Washington watchdog of the press and television, believes that the portrayal of corporate leaders on the tube shows television's antibusiness bias. The group, which studied 200 prime-time episodes on all three major networks, this week publishes its findings in a report titled Crooks, Conmen and Clowns. It reveals that two of three businessmen are shown as foolish, greedy or criminal, and that almost half of all work activities performed by businessmen involve illegal acts. For example, in Barnaby Jones, a coffee importer helps a violent revolutionary group. In Vega$, a wealthy hotel owner...
First, and perhaps most significantly, two members of the Faculty found evidence that sex discrimination influenced the Sociology Department's tenure recommendation vote. The finding, by two of the three grievance panel members, confirms what many have believed for a long time--that sex bias is a pervasive, if subtle, force in the University. We urge that the University's and Faculty's affirmative action offices, which must now undertake the investigation of Skocpol's sex discrimination charge, pursue the issue vigorously. Students and junior and senior Faculty members must watch carefully to make sure the serious question...
Finally, the Skocpol case, sex discrimination charges aside, points out once again Harvard's paranoia about people who do not espouse the company line. Even if sex bias were not an issue in Skocpol's case, bias against her radical political views and her qualitative/comparative approach to Sociology would be. Discrimination against political and academic views within the university is as pervasive a problem as sex bias. For that reason, the Faculty should establish a grievance process that encompasses all forms of discrimination. It also needs--as the Skocpol case makes eminently clear--a procedure to allow junior professors...
...stag party"-Mark 6:21) or shocking ("You son of a bitch!"-Saul to Jonathan in 1 Samuel 20: 30-changed to "You fool!" in recent printings). Scholars, including some of Taylor's fellow Evangelicals, uncharitably accuse the book of "excess," "blatant mistranslation," "deliberate distortion" and "theological bias...