Word: biases
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It’s pretty obvious why Brooks would want to repaint the world in redder hues, but the Times’ mistake doesn’t really fit their M.O. I don’t think the Times did this because they secretly have a Republican bias. That would be less frightening. I think the Times is just reflecting a popular fallacy: the myth of the affluent middle. Brooks and his cronies have been peddling their skewed statistics so long that even the liberal establishment has adopted them. Harvard students are uniquely susceptible to this kind of distortion...
...impasse over key technology issues, such as whose instant-messaging platform would be used. But a variety of proposals remain on the table, including the creation of a separately traded company. "We could take a more modest approach with co-marketing agreements," the source tells TIME, "but the bias is, if we're going to do this, let's really play...
Surprisingly, Machida's strategy of concentrating on businesses in which the company has a significant edge is rare in corporate Japan, where a bias toward bulking up still reigns. Gerhard Fasol, president of Eurotechnology Japan, a tech consultancy in Tokyo, says, "The Toshibas and Hitachis of this world are in about 20 or 30 different industry areas. There is no focus." Even in secondary business lines, Sharp tries to develop what it calls one-of-a-kind products. A recent example: the new Healsio oven that reduces fat and salt content by cooking with superheated steam. The oven...
...exactly this lack of strong ideological bias that leads us to support Judge Roberts. His nomination is the best candidate liberals can reasonably hope...
When West finally got a deal (in the end, Roc-A-Fella overcame its institutional bias against Polo shirts), he shattered the myth that he was too soft, too weird and too bourgeois to fit the mold of a platinum-selling rapper. His 2004 debut album, The College Dropout, went nearly triple platinum, topped all the major critics' polls, earned 10 Grammy nominations and made rap accessible to audiences that hadn't paid attention in years. "That record restored my faith in hip-hop," says Jamie Foxx, who lent comic vocals to West's No. 1 hit Slow Jamz...