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...Ryan issued a moratorium on executions. Though commendable, this action presupposes that capital punishment is a method we ought to use, that perhaps, if we could change the way it is administered, it would be a desirable method of crime control. However, it is not the potential for racial bias or the risk that people on death row may actually be innocent that makes capital punishment a less than ideal method of crime prevention. Nor is it the fact that we know that capital punishment is not useful as a deterrent. Rather, what states like Michigan and Massachusetts have recognized...
...talk to me. It was like The Firm. It was like a big conspiracy." Said says the reasons for her termination were never explained, but she surmises either that her extra vacation days--she took 13, three more than the allotted quota--or else a perception of anti-Israeli bias in the Middle East guide led to the cutting loose...
...SHARE was first established in 1994 by a group of progressive students--perhaps the only officially recognized student group whose existence is based on the alleged political bias of a specific course...
...Both the English and Economics departments have wrestled with the perception of curricular bias for years now. But the department's administrators say critics should look at Harvard in context...
...There is definitely a culture to the South that involves homecoming games and football and being active in church while you're a student, and I think it is probably reasonable to say that there is a cultural bias to coming up North. Harvard has a reputation for being very liberal and atheist and other sorts of things," says Beth A. Stewart '00, a Georgia conservative and former Undergraduate Council president...