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...killing a murder. He lashed out at those who criticized the cops, calling the demonstrations silly, and saw his mayoral approval rating plummet. After the verdict last week, Giuliani reached out to the Diallo family but spent as much energy calling on angry citizens to "put their prejudices and biases aside. We have racism in New York...We also have a vicious form of antipolice bias." The First Lady, who had already apologized for the murder remark, was more cautious in her reaction. She asked people "to strive for a better understanding of the incredible risk police face...
...called the name of Lisa Marie Presley's fiance, John Oszajca, "unpronounceable" [PEOPLE, Feb. 14]. But if 40 million people can pronounce the name Oszajca correctly, why can't you? Please don't let your Anglo-Saxon bias impair your ability to pronounce Slavic names, especially Polish ones. Not being able to pronounce a name correctly denigrates and debases not only its bearer but also the country of its origin. Ethnocentricity isn't funny in our rapidly shrinking global village. We all need to make the effort to pronounce names correctly and not make fun of them. Because, frankly...
Music editorship for a college newspaper can be confusing. Decisions, decisions. Do we try to cover the same stuff other newspapers' arts sections do, except with more Harvard bias? Or do we assume college students have more eclectic, diverse tastes (or at least are more willing to try stuff out), and aim to introduce new, interesting things to them? It's hard to tell: I've heard loads of generalizations about the musical taste of students here at Harvard but I only get to interact with a limited percentage of you. So I take a stab in the dark...
...Museum of the Confederacy is an attack on the serious study of history. This museum is not some glorified Klan hall but a serious and respected academic and historical institution. It is especially foolish to denounce the study of such a vitally formative period in American history. Corrupting bias comes as much from the defenders of right as from revisionists and apologists. In a very real sense much of the human tragedy of the Civil War and the great suffering of slavery have been in vain if memory is corrupted and distorted for political ends...
Although cross-border takeovers were widely predicted to be one of the early benefits of the introduction of the euro by 11 European countries on Jan. 1, 1999, there had been few hostile cross-border transactions before last week's deal. In part, the domestic bias of mergers can be explained by the relative ease of making them work when both companies are in a home market. But government intervention, particularly in France and Italy, has kept foreign banks from making planned bids...