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...over the hospital's motives for carrying through the long appeal process. Shea says "Beth Israel was using legal procedure to delay and harass us--the issue was decided against them at every step." He adds the history of hostility between the hospital and the union shows a hospital bias against unions and a willingness to use any tactic to prevent hospital workers from joining unions. By appealing the case, Shea says, the hospital effectively prevented any distribution of union literature for four years...
Schlesinger, who was a special assistant to President John F. Kennedy, as well as an adviser and friend to J.F.K.'s brother, makes no attempt to hide his bias. Paraphrasing the author of a book on the controversial Lord Beaverbrook, he writes: "If it is necessary for a biographer of Robert Kennedy to regard him as evil, then I am not qualified to be his biographer." This begs a question. The problem with Schlesinger's book is not that he finds no evil in Kennedy. His case for R.F.K.'s virtues-compassion, puritanical fair-mindedness, personal...
...goes without saying, of course, that those same deans and professors and administrators who so pride themselves on this objectivity still manage to develop a bias of their own on occasion. Yet, the argument goes, these are opinions based on a survey, "the full picture" taken from a room in University Hall, and so much clearer than the view here on Plympton St. Students, the deans will say, cannot form proper opinions because they do not have all the facts; yet they will not release the facts to newspaers because they fear the opinions that might develop. The dispassionate observer...
Kimball's revelation freed the faith from a gnawing problem. Missionaries faced constant questions about Mormon racism. "Church young people were mortified," says University of Utah Historian Brigham Madsen. "They would not put up with it any longer." The N.A.A.C.P. went to court to end bias in Mormon Boy Scout troops. A dissident member even dared picket the 28-story headquarters building that dominates the Salt Lake City skyline. The revelation also solved the dilemma of who is eligible to use the new temple in racially mixed Brazil...
...Cardinals. John Carberry of St. Louis is "threatened by a world he does not understand." Terence Cooke of New York is "untouched by theology or other theoretical influences." John Krol of Philadelphia and the Vatican's John Wright are both "princely" and "authoritarian." The ideological bias flaws judgment in some instances. It is dubious whether Belgium's Leo Jozef Suenens was the non-Italian "front runner in the early 1970s" or that another liberal, Holland's Bernard Alfrink, will be "one of the most influential" conclave members...