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...Baldus study does not demonstrate a constitutionally significant risk of racial bias affecting the Georgia capital-sentencing process," Powell wrote yesterday...
...President had entered the woods, done battle and lost. And, contradicting the rampant charges of "liberal bias in the media," the next day's papers failed to report this fact's significance. Consequently, the override battle will likely lose importance in perspective, continuing the process which began with the speeches 10 minutes after Reagan's defeat...
Many have accused the press of devoting too much space to the story. Some have blamed bias, others the press's itch to sensationalize. In fact, because the story has thus far lacked Watergate's drama and turned on the accumulation of details, newspaper stories ran at such length that they came to be of interest primarily to scandal junkies. But the press was not so much overplaying the story as playing catch-up in doing its job. It took the Tower commission report to make the story big and clear again...
However, Vendler, poetry critic for the New Yorker and the editor of the "Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry," said, "There is no bias against ethnic poetry" as long as it is good...
Nonetheless, Jewett, an enthusiastic sports fan who often travels to away football and hockey games, believes that his pro-athletic bias occasionally might have influenced his decisions to admit recruited athletes. At the football banquet this fall, football Coach Joe Restic noted, "One of the biggest losses we suffered was when Fred left the Admissions Office...