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Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) officials announced last week that they will step up enforcement of existing rules against racial bias in kidney transplants...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HMS study finds racial gap in kidney transplants | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...presidential contest, no one is likely to accuse Bush of being insufficiently Texan, nor does an Ivy League bias hold much water considering the two Democratic front-runners are graduates of Harvard and Princeton...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bush Spent Undergrad Years Away From Politics | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

Watching 36 year-old Zhang Yuan's films is like walking through a Rorscharchian gallery--viewers' reactions reveal not only their psychological bias and perspective on society, but also the goal of Zhang's underlying artistic project. Unlike the majority of Chinese filmmakers today who make appeasingly jovial movies, Zhang sees his work as social stimuli. It is telling that he prefers to be called an "artist" rather than a "filmmaker...

Author: By Shannon May, | Title: Cinemanic -- ZHANG YUAN: A Portrait of the Young Artist | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

Even though I'm bisexual, I think the point raised in the dissent ("A Thinly Veiled Bias," Nov. 2) is valid. Tossing a homophobic straight kid from the Midwest into a living situation with a queer roommate and forcing them to live together isn't likely to do anyone any good. In my opinion, a queer kid should have just as much right to demand that he be removed from a living situation with a straight person because he is not comfortable having to co-habitate with a homophobe, even if that person is mostly civil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...American press. Public confidence in the news media, as evidenced by the multi-million-dollar jury verdict, is lower than any newspaper or television network would like to admit. Tactics that skirt or violate the law will buy no friends among a public already quick to identify bias in reporters and dismiss their reports. The press occupies too important a position in the democratic process to be complacent towards this ambient distrust; perceptions of a biased, unethical or irresponsible press will only encourage the public not to listen when the media reports something they don't want to hear...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, FOOD LION SUPREME COURT CASE EXTENDS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS | Title: One for the Media | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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