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Square residents called drumming "a worm on the brain" and complained about its effects on mental health. But street musicians complained of cultural elitism, bias and censorship, and warned that when percussion is suppressed, the Square's eclectic atmosphere will dampen...
...first trial, the traditional bias favoring the police was bolstered by a controversial shift of venue from the city to suburban Simi Valley, a change that resulted in the selection of a conservative jury with no black members. The defense will not enjoy this advantage in the current case, which could be heard as early as October: the federal jury pool is drawn from the entire metropolitan area, and will probably include some black and Hispanic members with a different perspective on the trustworthiness of the police. Also, the jury may feel pressure not to acquit the officers for fear...
...sexual orientation never came into play in my work setting, so there would be no reason for any of these things. If you're wondering if I have a bias, I mentored heterosexual men -- I presume they were heterosexual -- to replace me in both of my last positions as chief nurse. So I don't base my decisions on my sexual orientation or on what I believe might be somebody else's. I base them on the work that I do and the work that other people...
...afoul of the First Amendment. But four Justices -- O'Connor, Byron White, John Paul Stevens and Harry Blackmun -- took a different approach, attempting to find a way of accommodating so-called hate-crime laws that are drawn more narrowly. Left in doubt were hundreds of campus speech codes and bias-crime statutes throughout the country aimed at racist and sexist conduct...
Epps' appointment comes after a semester of tensions. In April, the director of the Harvard Foundation, S. Allen Counter, wrote a letter to The Crimson accusing the newspaper of bias in its reporting of minority issues...