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Last Friday, Safir appointed a black officer to the No. 2 position in the street-crimes unit. (Black leaders dismiss the move as window dressing.) Both Safir and Giuliani have emphatically denied that the police are guilty of misconduct or racial bias. The Diallo controversy, Giuliani says, has been stirred up by political activists and the scandal-hungry press. In fact, he points out, fatal shootings by police are at their lowest level in 13 years. The police department is controversial, its supporters say, because it has been doing its job vigorously. And they note that it has been phenomenally...
Your cover lines showed a typical bias: "The latest research...reveals that women are tougher, stronger and lustier that anyone ever thought." Anyone? Some men, perhaps. Women have always known these facts. KEITHA LEONARD Boulder, Colo...
...strong women are. But then you proceed to "honor" us by putting pictures of nude women throughout the story. And your table-of-contents listing for the story has the title "What Little Girls Are Made Of." I was hoping my daughter's generation would be free of this bias. SANDY KOGUT Montreal...
...away from the practical and toward the political. Throwaway Dads: The Myths and Barriers That Keep Men from Being the Fathers They Want to Be, co-authored with Ross D. Parke (Houghton Mifflin), is tinged with resentment and launches a multipronged attack on what Brott feels is a lingering bias against the male parent who would rather fix his children's breakfast than get a head start on the morning commute. "Margaret Mead once said fathers are a biological necessity but a social accident," Brott and Parke write. "Throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries, our culture has been...
...immediately see the political bias: if there's no social significance to the biological differences between men and women, then any legal or social sanction that separates men and women into distinct categories, such as marriage, is inherently flawed...