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Quite a few History and Literature majors were nonplussed last year by the selection of Stephen. Thernstrom as the speaker at the annual History and Lit dinner. His brand of history was not theirs. Yet the distinction they saw was not one of historical philosophy or bias or method of analysis, but merely that Thernstrom employed certain facts from history that, being numbers, required some basic mathematical treatment before being placed in a larger frame of analysis. The real differences among historians--those we should tune our minds to discover--do not concern whether data is mathematical...
...more intricate than the famed Hampton Court Palace maze outside London ("Not much to solve there," sniffs Bright. " All you need to do is keep taking the left turn"). One Bright invention is what he calls the principle of "partial valves," by which, he says enigmatically, he introduces "a bias in a closed system of paths so I can make it more difficult to get from Point B to A than from A to B." Another feature of his people-traps is Bright's Principle...
...resolution was proposed by Accuracy in Media, Inc., a group that publicized incidents of alleged bias or inaccuracy in East coast news media...
...statement issued yesterday, the ACSR said it has recommended that the University vote its 33.26 shares against a shareholder resolution calling for CBS to set up a committee to investigate bias in news reporting, and instead send the letter...
Nevertheless, the language that reflected and helped shape American attitudes towards the government's enemies was still in the newspapers last week. As they had throughout the war, the newsmagazines led the way, with reporting whose bias verged on the ridiculous. To Time magazine, the Saigon government's abandonment of half its country was "a gritty gamble," a "historic rearrangement of the Vietnamese political map" to be celebrated with an in-depth look at the government's head: "As both soldier and politician, Nguyen Van Thieu has fought the Communist menace from the North, and it remains his abiding passion...