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This pronunciamento of bias is my only preface to saying that the Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs, just published by the Association, is one of the most promising magazines I have read. If you are involved in civil rights, you will buy this journal without my prompting. If you are not involved but collect rare issues of important publications, you still might buy Negro Affairs. The first number of what might become a classic is a good investment...
...difficulty had been an overzealous concern with spies' legal rights, which prevented government officials from investigating suspected leaks until the courts rendered a verdict. The government's fear was that an announcement of an investigation might bias prospective jurors or witnesses. Nonetheless, three hours after Bossard's conviction, Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced in Commons that in the future, government employees will be grilled as soon as a lapse is discovered, though results will be kept private until after the trial. "It is not enough, once the horse has bolted, to have a high-level inquiry...
...force of this exhibition and the essay is directed toward a particular type of modern art and a particular type of criticism. Fried handles abstract art masterfully as a critic but maintains a critical bias in his "historical generalizations. He treats as historically insignificant many excellent contemporary painters who are concerned with the everyday things of our world, that is, artists who work with "subject matter." It is important to see more of the aspects of the exciting contemporary scene. Fried has gathered together an abstract exhibition of high quality though not representative of all legitimate contemporary styles...
M.I.T.'s department is second, although it ranks first for "effectiveness" of its over-all graduate program, the survey says. Chicago and Yale are next. Many mathematically-inclined students tend to choose M.I.T. or Yale over Harvard because of the University's bias towards practically, Business Week explains...
...have no reason to believe that the many errors in your story were due to bias, and not merely to superficial and careless reporting. I will give you the benefit of the doubt, as soon as I find out which accusation you prefer. David D. Friedman...