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...said recently that outside consulting influences the direction of a scholar's research. "You don't have to believe in a mechanistic theory of knowledge to believe that if may affect their research. It's perfectly obvious that the source of the funds is extremely important in determining the bias of the research...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Professional Moonlighting | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

Then White traces his routes, first as a stringer graduated to reporter for Time Magazine's Henry Luce, stationed in China to cover the Japanese invasion. Later he covered both the rise of the Chinese Communist Party and the action of World War II. After disillusionment with Time's bias for Chiang K'ai-shek and a fight with Luce, White broke away from time and co-wrote a bestseller, Thunder Out of China (1946), dealing directly with what Time attempted to ignore...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: In Search of Teddy White | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...Bias of Experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is Your Personality Snapping? | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...Robin Hood Judge," the mostly approving state press called him. But the state's Judicial Qualifications Commission charged Taunton, 39, with "conduct unbecoming a member of the judiciary" and a year ago sought to have him removed from the bench. The judge's compassion verged on bias, agreed the Florida Supreme Court last March, but it let Taunton off with a reprimand, calling his motives "wholesome and unselfish." Taunton is not a lawyer. A former high school principal and Methodist lay minister, he defends his leniency to the poor by quoting the Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Robin Hood Of the Bench | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...this over the years, myself so nearly mute at having to let writing die over and over again in me," Olsen eloquently and passionately documents a spectrum of circumstances, most beyond the control of the writer, that corrupt or destroy his art. (Olsen criticizes the language's invidious bias towards the male...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: The Suppressed Side of Creativity | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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