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...prosecutor had excluded four blacks from the jury with peremptory challenges, which have long been exercised without any explanation required. But last week in an important 7-to-2 decision, the Supreme Court reined in the practice. Justice Lewis Powell, writing for the majority, observed that intentional racial bias denies "the protection that a trial by jury is intended to secure"--a jury of one's peers. So the court changed the rules. Previously, a black defendant alleging the biased exclusion of black jurors had to show that the prosecutor invariably used peremptory challenges to exclude blacks in case after...
...forget what the Nazis have done in the past, but let us proceed toward the future, without unsubstantiated bias against Waldheim, leaving the past to affect the present whenever applicable, but only then...
...religious person. Neither am I anti-religious. I am uncertain and concerned about a personal resolution that could change me. But organized, deceptive religion is alienating, even when it's a satellite-dish away. Face to face manipulation only builds walls of bias no Word can reach through...
...some sort of outrageous heresy against fundamental, cast-in-stone legal precepts. Meese, like any active and important leader in American legal matters, simply has a strong point of view (one incidentally shared by many thousands of lawyers, politicians and judges). That he happens to hold a profoundly conservative bias apparently miffs some Harvard law professors and Kennedy School students but should not deter Dean Allison from giving Meese a small token of recognition for his years of fighting for his beliefs and for coming to speak...
Last November the government awarded the franchise for a fifth channel to a group headed by Berlusconi and two French businessmen with ties to President Mitterrand. Opposition leaders charged that the new channel would have a pro- Socialist bias and that it was being rushed on the air to beat the March 16 legislative elections, which the Socialists are in danger of losing. Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, a leading Mitterrand foe, even tried to thwart the channel's start-up by closing access to the top of the Eiffel Tower, where technicians were about to install an antenna. Government officials...