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...Wyoming student, was one of the most prominent incidents of such violence, and one that will be remembered by this generation for its brutality and senselessness. The dragging death of James Byrd basically scared the hell out of most of America. Recent FBI statistics show that 7,876 bias-motivated incidents occurred in 1999. That boils down to almost one incident per hour...
Quinn talks to Clinton. They cut a deal: Rich will get the pardon, but he won't use the statute of limitations to avoid civil prosecution. Quinn's notes from the conversation include a few inscrutable phrases: "stayed away--publicity," "defensible," "inequity," "bias--rich...
...emerge last summer at Camp David, when President Clinton spent more than two weeks trying to bring Oslo to fruition. Camp David, site of Egypt's 1979 peace deal with Israel, is Arab shorthand for a sellout. The Palestinians came with an old, unspoken grudge about perceived U.S. bias. They felt that the American team headed by Special Middle East Coordinator Ross had been strongly biased in favor of Israel for several years. The summit nearly collapsed on the third day, according to notes taken by the Palestinians, after Clinton submitted a draft proposal that described Jerusalem as the "united...
...African artifacts, but Stieglitz--whose eyes had been opened to such things in Paris by Picasso, Matisse and others--was ready and willing to assign an inscrutable Ivory Coast mask the dignity and singularity of an old Florentine bronze, or a new Brancusi. Today critics might find some unconscious bias in his belief that African art was close to the art of children: instinctive, untutored, vital. And because he thought much the same about art made by women, some feminist theorists might not like him much...
Relevant to her allegation of deliberate bias, I point out that in choosing the senior males to include in the study, we considered only those who received their doctorates in the same time frame (1970-76) as the senior women. This resulted in the exclusion of some of the most distinguished males, specifically two Nobel laureates who graduated in 1968 and 1969. We also presented data for junior scientists. These data showed very encouraging performance trends for junior women faculty. Contrary to Hopkins' claims, we did not tailor our methodology to a particular result; we simply followed standards commonly used...