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Critics have charged that under Harvard admissions policies, Asian-Americans must be academically better qualified to gain admission, and that the University has employed conscious or unconscious bias in limiting the number of Asian-American undergraduates...
...Marion Barry recently mustered the energy to propose hiring more police officers to work in particularly dangerous neighborhoods. He has no urban renewal agenda. George Bush, meanwhile, is still in the shadow of Ronald "drugs are out of style in the U.S." Reagan, as evidenced by his budget's bias towards supply-side drug intervention...
...fogginess to the whole thing," declares ophthalmologist George Beauchamp of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, "and the treatments are fuzzy and ill-defined." Although optometrists point to hundreds of research reports that they say validate the training, most ophthalmologists dismiss the studies as anecdotal. "Bring me one study controlled for bias on the part of the practitioner and the person," says Dr. Paul Vinger of Harvard University, a vision consultant to the U.S. Olympic Committee. "Prove it, then promote...
Sleep Walker: June 18, 1986. The horseshoe returns to lottery action under new Knick GM Scotty Stirling. The Knicks receive only the fifth pick, costing them the chance to draft Chris Washburn or William Bedford, both now in drug rehabilitation, or Len Bias, who died the next day of a drug overdose. The Knicks choose Kenny "Sky" Walker, a terrible lottery pick, but at least a decent reserve...
Whatever his motivation, MacDougall's shadowy career does reveal something about the limits of ideological bias in the mainstream media. MacDougall stresses that his beliefs merely influenced the types of stories he tried to pursue. "I was first and foremost a journalist," he says, "and I stuck to accepted standards of newsworthiness, accuracy and fairness...