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...Since the study controls for college performance," Kidder said, "there is some combination of cultural bias on the test and atmospheric bias...
...political correctness only codifies this recognition into a policy. Invoking political correctness forces the person who called me a "Chink" to accept that what he or she has said offends me. I might call that person a racist, forcing him or her to come to terms with the personal bias the language betrays...
...boys, remanded to home detention by a judge, are free to return to school. Englewood residents are now claiming police coercion and racial bias in the case. The police deny any misconduct. "These babies just did not do this," says Shirley Blanton, a close friend of the families. Now, to celebrate, she says, "the whole neighborhood is going to have a barbecue"--except, perhaps, for the kin of Ryan Harris...
Court records are no help. The number of age-bias suits filed with federal and state agencies has stayed roughly level for the past few years. One reason may be that more and more corporations are writing into employment contracts a clause under which the employee agrees never to file an age- (or race- or sex-) discrimination suit. Jeffrey Taren, a Chicago attorney who specializes in employment law, says the number of age-bias cases his firm has agreed to take is actually declining. Not, he hastens to add, because there is less bias to fight. Rather, word...
...Nelson, a New York attorney specializing in employment law. Chicago lawyer Taren adds that some courts have even interpreted employer comments such as, "This company is looking for young blood," or, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," to be innocent remarks rather than evidence of serious bias. The upshot is that if an age-discrimination case is to succeed, an employer virtually has to tell a worker in so many words, "We don't want you because...