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...their race. The decision limits peremptory challenges, which have traditionally allowed jurors to be excluded from serving without any explanation. "Be it at the hands of the State or the defense," wrote Justice Harry Blackmun for the majority, "if a court allows jurors to be excluded because of group bias, it is a willing participant in a scheme that could only undermine the very foundation of our system of justice -- our citizens' confidence...
...Cultural bias, religious freedom and the possible health effects of public drumming were all at issue during a City Council hearing on street musicians earlier this week...
...letter read to me like it was written by someone who had a real concern that bias existed and that part of that bias was that many Crimson. writers were Jewish," Feldman says. this is a reading that Feldman says is "not by nature anti-Semitic...
Case in point: This April, Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations Director S. Allen Counter co-signed a long, nasty letter accusing "Crimson writers active in Hillel" of racial insensitivity and bias, of using this newspaper to promote their own "racial agenda." And then all hell broke loose...
...although conservative mistrust of the news media and misgivings about the nature of the modern academy are warranted, the way in which conservatives have reacted to media bias and universities' religious indifferences...