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...differences with Turkey, for example, have already delayed the deployment of the E.U. force in Macedonia because the old enemies can't agree on the use of NATO facilities. Europe's natural strengths in the Balkans - proximity and historical ties - remain its singular weaknesses as well, fueling accusations of bias toward one group or another. "In the care of Europe we'd be a Serbian colony again," grumbles an ex-rebel in Kosovo. "We wouldn't exist." Perhaps the biggest benefit of U.S. involvement over the past decade is the message it has sent to the Islamic world that...
SPRIGGS: Businesses are biased toward cost cutting as a way of making profit margins, and that puts in a bias against adding new workers. We overestimate the ability to generate jobs in an environment where you make profit by cutting cost. The easiest cost to cut is labor cost: shutting down a plant with a couple of thousand workers...
...purported to show a militiaman a split second after he'd been fatally shot. Debate over its authenticity still rages. The "truth" of the photo, says Kershaw, is in its representation of a symbolic death. "The Falling Soldier, authentic or fake, is ultimately a record of Capa's political bias and idealism," he writes, adding: "Indeed, he would soon come to experience the brutalizing insanity and death of illusions that all witnesses who get close enough to the 'romance' of war inevitably confront." In 1946, after more than a decade of front-line reporting, says Kershaw, "Capa had started...
...have a kind of bias, towards getting real resources to real people,” he says...
...spite of my nonathletic childhood, my “family” at school—my blocking group—ironically contains some of the most talented athletes on campus (no personal bias, of course). One blockmate is the captain of the wrestling team and an Olympic hopeful; another was a rowing standout. My two roommates are a star on the women’s lacrosse team and a varsity basketball player. Cumulatively I have spent many, many hours trying to scamper across that precarious crosswalk at the intersection of JFK Street and Memorial Drive in order to watch...