Word: biases
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Words are one thing. Sticks and stones are another. There were nearly 8,759 hate crimes reported in 1996; 1,016 of those were sex-bias crimes. Although no one thinks that Wyoming, which has quashed hate-crime bills three times, won't fully prosecute Shepard's killers, gay lobbyists have no doubt that there are cases in which the police look the other way, prosecutors don't bring charges and juries don't convict. Take the case of Jonathan Schmitz, who killed a gay man who said during the taping of the Jenny Jones Show that...
There needs to be a defense against the defense that "homophobia made me do it." Forty states have hate-crime laws, and studies show that added measures can make a difference. Some critics fear that speech will be curtailed in the zeal to get at all those bias incidents classified as "intimidation." But the Supreme Court has found that laws protecting gays don't violate free speech. It refused to hear the case of a preacher in New Jersey who said the state's antidiscrimination law protecting gays violated his First Amendment rights. It's a misplaced fear to think...
Bennett's study proposes that the elimination of bias in journalism and the reestablishment of fairness and accuracy will result when journalists "insist upon evidence, and always give gay or lesbian spokespersons the opportunity to respond directly to [an] allegation...
...their investments in computer power. Their four top goals: to improve service to customers, target new customers, improve quality of products or services, and reduce total costs. Only the fourth objective would have much effect on productivity statistics as they are currently measured, which reflects an old-fashioned bias toward things that can be readily counted. Nowadays, simply counting widgets doesn't tell us what's going on. Brynjolfsson likens that approach to the reasoning of the drunk in an ancient joke: he looks for his lost keys under a streetlight not because that's where he dropped them...
...quipping endlessly about fashion ("It's almost impossible to have any style at all without the right dog"), pop culture and, always eagerly, himself. In the past few years, Mizrahi had cultivated the kind of celebrity that made him known to people who have never heard of shantung or bias cuts...