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...warped brilliance of Charles Stuart is that he exploited the latent prejudice of middle-class white society. He wisely tapped the deepest well of racial and class bias of middle-class America. He animated the gravest fear of white America: a crazed, degenerate Black man kills an innocent, pregnant lawyer and child, destroys a family which symbolizes white middle-class prosperity. It was all so believable, so real. He created a story which so much of white America wanted to believe in order to justify its own racism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racism and the Stuart Murder Case | 1/10/1990 | See Source »

...time when Tree bit Danny Ainge. When Laimbeer roamed the plains. Maxwell did his rubber band act. Moses never got called for a foul. Parish never stopped running the floor. Len Bias stopped living...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Daddy? What Were Sports in The 80s Like? | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

...ongoing Justice Department probe into alleged antitrust violations by American universities is one such example of this bias, says Spence...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Financing Higher Education's Future | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

These students proposed different theories that explain the lack of romance at Harvard, which I shall now present objectively without any shred of bias...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Romance at Harvard? Yeah, Right. | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Political pundits have vied to quantify what is virtually unknowable: the precise number of Democratic-leaning white Virginians who could not bring themselves to vote for a black candidate. Polls are unreliable on this point, since few voters are secure enough in their bigotry to confess such blatant bias. Wilder strategists, perhaps reflecting their candidate's de-emphasis of racial issues, argue that their putative lead was always exaggerated. "In none of our polling did we expect to have Doug much over 51%," says Wilder pollster Mike Donilon. In other words, if the election was always destined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breakthrough In Virginia Dougas Wilder | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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