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...Jewish shopkeepers are the only remaining 'survivors' in the expanding black ghettos. The lack of competition allows the already exploited black to be further exploited by Jews." Mayor Lindsay quickly denounced the catalogue as another example of racism, and the embarrassed museum hastened to add an insert disclaiming bias...
...worth noting that the H-RPC report had implicitly called for a discussion of the moral and political issues to follow the abolition of credit and removal of department status. (In a letter to the CRIMSON, seven of the fifteen student members had explicitly condemned the militarism and class bias of ROTC, and called for a further discussion of the issues "as raised, for example...
While many of the Nader group's charges were justified, the report's effectiveness was often diminished by overstatement and an intemperate tone. Suggesting an anti-business bias, the report called the dishonesty of companies "far more damaging to contemporary America than all the depredations of street crime." Though anything but objective, the report drew support last week from an unexpected source. The trade journal Advertising Age joined the Nader team in knocking the commission's foot dragging: "No community is well served," it editorialized, "if its fire department habitually reaches the scene after the last spark...
...Possible Biases. To some extent, the program's good showing may reflect the fact that the patients are older than the average addict and more likely to be motivated to seek a better way of life. Then too, by design, all of them are volunteers. The sample is not exactly representative: it contains proportionately more whites (48% v. 25% among addicts generally), with 33% Negroes and 18% Puerto Ricans. Even with allowances for bias, the results are so good that an impartial study group set up at Columbia University calls them "most encouraging" and recommends expansion of the program...
...survived, argues Brandon, was not the Jesus remembered as a Messianic revolutionary who sought to cleanse Israel for the coming of God's kingdom, but a transcendent divinity who had come to all men and not merely the Jews. What also survived, says Brandon, was the anti-Semitic bias of the Evangelists that made scapegoats of Judaism-a nation of "Christ killers" for nearly 2,000 years...