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Skaters can also get tripped up by a judge's cultural bias, with scores dividing along geopolitical lines. Russian and Eastern European judges, with their deep association with ballet and theater, tend to prefer skaters with classical styles, while Westerners are more receptive to contemporary moves. And prejudging is practically a requirement. Judges are encouraged to attend practices to see what the skaters can do. When they start judging, however, they reserve their highest marks for whoever they think will be the best skater--dampening prospects for early performers. Tricky jumps and graceful lines are still crucial, but in skating...
...against an apparently ever darkening shroud of dusk. "I had to double-check the date on the cover," wrote a Colorado reader after experiencing a sense of deja vu. "For a minute there I thought we were back at the Clinton White House." "Your cover would have passed the bias test if it had substituted the Capitol building for the White House," suggested a New Jerseyan, "as both Democrats and Republicans were beneficiaries of Enron's greed." A Nebraskan pressed her charge more bluntly: "The article is about Enron, but the picture is of the White House. You're learning...
Downie and Kaiser introduce a further, personal bias into the book when they assert the superiority of newspapers to other forms of mass media. They neglect to any personal responsbility for the state of journalism in the 1990s, attributing its demise to a lack of funding and a redirection towards entertainment and opinion. There is some discussion of what exactly constitutes good journalism—including an interesting distinction between journalism that is “objective,” which is impossible, and“fair”—but the authors rely too much on anecdotes...
...judge, is no stranger to the sport's controversial side. While judging at the Nagano Winter Games in 1998 she blew the whistle on behind-the-scenes vote trading after Canadian ice dancers Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz were denied a medal. She was initially cited for national bias by the International Skating Union, but after she produced a taped phone solicitation from a Ukrainian judge the Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned the citation and suspended the implicated judges...
...revision of the best-selling BIBLE in the U.S. will be released in April, incorporating some modern words and eliminating a linguistic male bias in some places. UPDATES in Today's New International Version: In MATTHEW 1:18, the Virgin Mary, before described as "with child," changes to "pregnant"; in MATTHEW 5:9, the peacemakers, once the "sons of God," become the "children of God"; in ROMANS 3:28, "a man is justified by faith" is now "a person is justified by faith." Throughout, references to "the Jews" are made more specific, such as "the Jewish leaders." And the vocative...