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...event after event, there were officiating blunders that demonstrated incompetence, and sometimes outright bias. The first involved Chris Taylor, the 434-lb. American heavyweight wrestler, in his opening bout with Russia's world champion, Alexander Medved. To most observers, Taylor waged a clean battle with his opponent and clearly should have won the match. Yet Referee Umit Demirag, a Turk, cautioned Taylor twice for fouling, without once reprimanding Medved; the penalty points incurred by Taylor provided Medved with his margin of victory. Demirag's calls were so conspicuously wrong that the Federation of International Boxing Associations afterward summarily...
...were borderline cases. The school district did not admit fault, but it did agree to a settlement, approved by the U.S. District Court, under which 2,500 improperly placed students will receive a token payment of $1 each. Moreover, the district promised to eliminate "racial, cultural, environmental or linguistic bias" from all future IQ tests administered to schoolchildren in San Diego...
...Fiedler uses to make his case, and some of it is weirdly selective. He brushes aside Cleopatra, Juliet, Desdemona and Cordelia, since they do not bolster the antiwoman argument, and dwells on the unflattering portrayal of Joan of Arc in Henry VI, Part I to establish Shakespeare's bias. It is more direct and more correct to recall that France was the hereditary enemy of England, and that precious few Frenchmen are depicted with anything but derision and distaste in Shakespeare. Apply the argument in reverse. Tennessee Williams has given us remarkable and far from unsympathetic in-depth portraits...
Despite its frequently childish espousal of childlessness, NON makes some valid points. It observes that the cultural bias against childless couples is so strong that husbands and wives cannot choose non-parenthood freely; they know they will be branded selfish, shallow and neurotic. In fact, the organization stresses, motives for parenthood are not always what they seem. Some parents use children, like drugs, to shield them from the realities of life. Others want offspring only to fulfill their own frustrated hopes, to have someone to possess and control, or to ensure financial support in their...
...time the early church fathers were compiling a theology of the Devil, the mystery religion of Gnosticism was on the scene, proclaiming that the world and all material things in it were irredeemably evil. Taking up the Gnostics' bias, the fathers often wrote as if Satan really were the ruler of the world, or at least its viceroy...