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...also a question of tone. Women on both sides are repelled by what they consider to be the abstract, unfeeling rhetoric of the extremist opposition. The pro-family people are put off by some feminists who dismiss abortions as mere bodily functions. They are equally unsettled by the pervasive bias of the women's movement toward Big Government. Pro-family forces would rather rely on the private sector and their own initiative?that would furnish more positive proof that women have finally arrived in America...
What Sallay speaks of is the tremendous political bias in judging that has come to light in the past few years. Sallay says that Eastern European judges pull for Russia, Western judges pull for the British, and the American pull for the Americans. It leaves the Hungarian due without a friendly judge...
...commune. While the first half of his book is devoted to the typical travelers' items (a visit to a school, a jail, a hospital), the rest is taken up by conversations with normal Chinese, instead of the official spokesmen who populate most works on China. Schell has a healthy bias against official statements, the "Brief Introductions" that are supposed to inform the visitor about a particular Chinese institution. Too often, he suggests, the "B.I.s" lack depth, as the guide rattles off the revolutionary phrases without appearing to think about them...
...surprising that the individual portraits are the most memorable part of Schell's book. He makes his bias clear: "I begin to wish that the walls of these meeting halls could speak, letting me hear the real struggles and human drama which must have gone on within." But he is also aware of the difference between his outlook and that of the Chinese...
...standards. Yet, he adds, "because of the broadness of the political constituency, the exam will probably end up being so easy that it won't tell you much"?a criticism already leveled at the state competency tests. There is also the problem of how to avoid any cultural bias that might adversely affect minority students...