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...often dynastic interests. Those Arab states are ruled by monarchs and dictators who are practically all Sunni. Iraq is about 60% Shi'ite. A democratic Iraq would inevitably become the Arab world's first Shi'ite-dominated state-a prospect from which the Arab leaders recoil for reasons of bias or fear. They also recoil from any demonstration of the possibility-indeed, the popularity-of free elections. Aside from the occasional harmless municipal election, those Arab states have either no elections or ones with only the great man on the ballot...
Hammonds holds a physics degree from MIT, and she taught there as the school wrestled with allegations of rampant gender bias among its faculty. She also served on the FAS Standing Committee on Women, which sent a letter to Summers last month blasting him for his comments...
...free of commercials, a qualification was made that the episodes be screened only once. The Council had no way of surmising from the show’s advertised topic that the plot would offend parts of Harvard’s population, and a tendency for controversial political bias in the parent company was judged to not be reason enough to decline the idea for a free advanced screening. Further, if any student group or students had been concerned at all about the show’s content prior to its airing, their worries would have been...
...recently in the help sent by Greece to Turkey in the wake of killer earthquakes. But there are also historical examples, such as the social upheavals that followed massive earthquakes in Nicaragua in 1973, in which natural disasters have sharpened conflict, particularly when aggrieved parties believe there is a bias in the distribution of relief aid. Already there are signs of such a dynamic emerging in Aceh, with some villagers accusing the Indonesian military of directing aid to families of soldiers and its allies in the population. But in Sri Lanka, where the two sides have been locked into...
This system may bias the tenure process in favor of men, Nicoara says. As part of the hiring process, the current all-male senior faculty evaluate the work of leading researchers at other universities and discuss whether or not to offer them tenure. In this situation, “men are favored because those kinds of networks are traditionally composed of men,” Nicoara says...