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...process is supposed to be content-blind. The council's five-student subcommittee that weighs funding decisions, however, had a distinct bias...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When U.C. Doles Out Money, Scales Are Sometimes Weighted | 11/8/1996 | See Source »

...them if they're liberals, and they'll tell you no. Ask if their ideological views bias their classroom teaching, they'll say, "Absolutely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leaning left | 11/5/1996 | See Source »

Asked if her views affect her teaching, Assistant Professor of Government Celeste Wallander replies. "Absolutely not. The only bias would be a truncation of views at the ends, i.e. we are pretty much in the middle. Radicals do not stand much of a chance at most major universities, whether they be radical left or radical right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leaning left | 11/5/1996 | See Source »

...district where tilling the soil is not a hobby but an industry of thousand-acre farms, Ewing's chairmanship of the Risk Management and Specialty Crops Subcommittee makes him a formidable foe. His bias toward his district's needs--he guided a controversial farm bill through Congress last year--sometimes aggravates his G.O.P. colleagues, but Ewing knows they don't vote to send him to Capitol Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: ILLINOIS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...anti-Semitism and racism are baseless and offensive. In Josh's quaint reality (where Bill Weld and the HRRA are conservatives), anyone who criticizes one member of a group must detest all member of that group. In that case, the editorial displays an alarming anti-Christian and anti-American bias, for I am a proud member of both groups. The "anti-Semitic strain" you see in my article, Mr. Kaufman, exists only in your head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diatribe on Peninsula Is From a Warped Perspective | 10/26/1996 | See Source »

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