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...exhibits a strong bias, reflecting his data, in favor of those with clearly defined notions of future careers. "The goalless person has a difficult time adapting because he is so much at the mercy of events around him," King writes. On this point also, King's study has missed the latest trends--a growth in both professional school applications, and the number of undecided people in each Harvard class...
...Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better. That was followed by the omnipresent Howard Cosell in his own flashy tuxedo-which seemed rather like a smoking jacket on a whooping crane. The experts on hand were Gene Scott and Rosemary Casals; both worked hard to demonstrate their sexist bias. Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate...
...sounds like part of the Republican conspiracy theory," said Jeffrey Sagansky '74, chairman of the Institute's Student Advisory Committee and a Young Republican. "If there is a bias, it's just because of the rather myopic liberal bias of academe in general...
Such prejudicial remarks on so sensitive an issue before an audience Bok already believed to be sympathetic to such bias hardly represent the judicious consideration on which Bok's reputation is supposedly based. Though, as Bok said, he is free to speak his mind on any issue, his speech represented, at best, hopeless naivete and, at worst, insulting opportunism...
Several conservative analysts accused the Special Prosecutor's Office of a Kennedy-Harvard orientation and an anti-Nixon bias, but Vorenberg said that no one in the Nixon administration ever charged him with this...