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First, there is the crucial question of intent. Camara insists his epithet was an unconscious note-taking shorthand. Scholl says he meant his e-mail as a substantive defense of free speech. Now you can, if you like, accuse Camara of harboring a personal bias and Scholl not only of phrasing his argument in a wretchedly insensitive manner but of using a word he knows to be offensive more frequently. But, if they are taken at their word, you cannot say they acted solely and consciously to offend. That more serious accusation is true only of the flyer?...
Hours before Annan’s speech began, dozens of student members of Jews for Conservative Politics and the Institute of Politics protested what they called the U.N.’s “anti-Israel” bias, holding placards that read, “Kofi: Stop forcing national suicide on Israel” and “If Zionism equals racism, what’s the equivalent of terrorism...
...started. After Wilson's financial interests in the Gelsinger case came to light, he insisted that they played no role whatsoever in his decisions, that research was his driving motivation. Yet Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, argues that such a link tends to bias the investigator, even if the bias is unconscious. A recent study by the University of Toronto analyzed 70 studies of a controversial heart drug. The results were telling: 96% of the researchers who were supportive of the drug had ties to companies that manufactured it, and only 37% of those...
CHARGED. DARRELL DAVID RICE, 34, with capital murder for the 1996 slayings of two women hikers in Shenandoah National Park; in Charlottesville, Va. Federal prosecutors invoked the 1994 bias-crimes law and plan to seek the death penalty for Rice, who they say chose his victims based on gender and sexual orientation. The case marks the first time the death penalty has been sought under...
...that OutKast was the clear favorite among students. Then they began questioning the acceptability of OutKast’s lyrics based upon second-hand internet content and rumors about the Rosa Parks case. It thus seems clear to me that administrators’ reservations were based solely on their bias against hip hop music and their assumption that bringing a group like OutKast would be more likely to raise safety concerns for students and physical concerns for the arena...