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...Paul, who, in preaching to the uncircumcised, had transformed the Jesus of history into a lofty and otherworldly "Lord of Glory." These Evangelists, moreover, wrote at a time when the young Christian church was abandoning its roots in Judaism. It was easy for them to incorporate an anti-Jewish bias into their accounts of Christ's life...
...know Harvard's present answer to this question. Do you like the answer? Are there better ones? Are they basically correct and yet is there too much preference shown to preppies and alumni sons? I think this last is the right idea. The semi-unintentional result is institutionalized class bias being aided and perpetuated by conscious policies which could be changed...
...first thing anyone usually asks an Israeli is about the Six Day War and the "occupied" or "liberated" (depending upon your political bias) territories...
With this background, he was picked by the President's Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence to head a study of the clashes between cops and civilians during the Democratic Convention in Chicago last August. No one could suspect Walker of pro-hippie bias; so his report had all the more impact last week when it accused the police themselves of rioting. The report, Rights in Conflict (TIME, Dec. 6), found fault on both sides-but came down harder on Chicago's police for losing control not only of the crowds, but also of themselves...
Adson still felt a need to protect patients against those medical men whom he accused of having "surgical genes-an inborn bias in favor of surgery." To this, Surgeon Kenneth W. Warren of Boston's Lahey Clinic replied: "We're a bit more aggressive than Mayo's in cutting out silent stones." The difference stirred Florida Surgeon John J. Farrell, moderator of the Miami gallstone session, to cite an overseas situation at the University of London. There, Internist Sheila Sherlock is a leading opponent of surgery on silent stones, but Surgeon Rodney Smith, who operates on most...