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...There’s a traditional bias in research: If you’re not at the bench doing hard, objective science, you’re not contributing to the scientific community...
...improbable that someone named George Bush, the most visible beneficiary of the G.O.P.'s longtime bias toward primogeniture, would be responsible for bringing its era to a halt. But he is chiefly to blame for leaving the party of his father and grandfather without a healthy male heir. Bush tapped Dick Cheney seven years ago to be his Veep in part because he did not want a Vice President whose loyalties were divided between the Oval Office and the Des Moines Register. Cheney ran once before and could have jumped in again (he will be only 67 in January...
...election process note that no outside ticket has ever won the UC presidential race. As I pass the 500-word mark, however, I would like to remind you that that fact was most recently reported by The Crimson, which we all know has a longstanding political bias towards the Whig Party, and their “facts” should not be taken at face value. I believe a president without any student government experience whatsoever is something we desperately need. The UC is a highly self-selecting group of people, encompassing a broad range of students...
...questions in a winning way will likely depend to a large extent on what CNN chooses to confront them with. The network's producers are well aware that part of the campaigns' original reluctance to participate was based on long-standing Republican suspicions about CNN's alleged liberal bias. CNN has promised that the questions will be appropriate for a modern Republican nominating process - although that surely means that the tone and substance of many of the chosen submissions (among the several thousands offered up for consideration) will be a bit more lively and challenging than what journalists and debate...
That straightforward bias toward life holds a lesson. Arabs and Jews will always view the past--and their city--in different ways. "The Israelis," says Seidemann, "will always look at 1948 as Independence Year, and the Arabs as [the time of] al-naqbah--the disaster." For Jews, 1967 was the moment that an undivided Jerusalem came under their jurisdiction for the first time since the Romans destroyed the temple; for Arabs, it was the year of another calamity. But whether they like it or not, Arabs and Jews are destined to live in the same small city. Alian, the volunteer...