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Moyers does not hide his own bias es while drawing out those of his guests...
...literature are hard at work. Even the popular, didactic Doctor Seuss has been taken to task for portraying all his animals-even hens-as male, and for giving only one woman an occupation: the royal laundress in Bartholomew and the Oobleck. Many textbooks are being rewritten to erase sexist bias (TIME, Nov. 5), and in real life children and parents are coping -sometimes ludicrously-with the change as best they...
...fairness, I should close by confessing a personal bias. I worked for two Democratic presidential candidates last year. Both of them are honest and decent men. One of them, George McGovern, honors public service by his part in it beyond any other person I know. He made mistakes in the campaign, but he did not commit crimes. And he did raise before the country a higher standard of respect for truth, for each other, and for "the decent opinions of mankind." More than a year later, I believe the country must still rally to that standard--not to elect Senator...
...People who have defined the essence of the American experience have transcended racism and bias...and defined the world in turbulent transition," Ellison said, referring to modern American writers...
...afternoon was a bore. Most Harvard-Yale games (or Yale-Harvard depending on your bias) go down to the last minute, not in the first. Witness Harvard's 29-29 victory in 1968: the Crimson scored 16 points in 42 seconds to win. Saturday Yale scored two touchdowns within 25 seconds, but who cares in a 35-0 game, especially when they do it in the second quarter. Even this newspaper's inevitable 23-2 victories are more exciting...