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...cited excessive bureaucratic burdens and costs, rapid changes in federal policy, and a bias to solve immediate social problems as threats to the "loose collection of autonomous scholars" who make up the university...
Your article is very disturbing by reason of its obvious bias in favor of Sadat, the "moderate Arab...
Even discounting the bias of the Hanoi press, Western observers were reasonably satisfied that the Communist conquest of almost three-quarters of South Viet Nam was proceeding so far without widespread bloodbaths or reprisals. Some refugees reported public stonings as well as scattered executions. In Danang, a policeman was beheaded in the marketplace soon after the Communist forces arrived, and the Viet Cong tied several captured ARVN soldiers together and blew them up with grenades. In Hué, after a drumhead court-martial, five policemen were shot. None of the refugees, however, reported mass executions similar to those during...
...detached analysis that told Fogel and Engerman how many whippings constitute harsh treatment of slaves, or how much confidence slaveholders had that the system would endure. So long as a researcher confines himself to recompiling old records, his work can indeed be devoid of historical context and bias. But as soon as he compares his results to those of others, as soon as he draws any historical conclusions, he loses his claim to special objectivity and his work becomes another work of history, whether good...
...interviewer. Kathy Kleeman '74, said, "We try to get to know her as a person, what she is interested in and what she wants....We don't look at their grades and board scores and often don't know them at the end of the interview. That might bias our impressions." Radcliffe also sets a standard half-hour time for each interview, intended to prevent the applicant from guessing at how interested the interviewer is in the candidate by the length of the interview...