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Perhaps students, against all odds, did find a way to defend freedom of pornography within the framework of the course. Maybe an overwhelming majority didn't actually defend the 'justice' of protecting pornography. Or maybe Harvard students just carry an incredible, almost unthinking bias toward invocation of the First Amendment in every imaginable situation...
...necessary to "avoid evil sociological and political interpretations of the nature of the church," said the delegates. At the same time, they proclaimed, the church must respond to such issues as "lack of respect for human life," "economic disequilibrium," suppression of civil and religious liberty, racial bias and the arms race...
...Nickelodeon proffers its solution to this philosophic dilemma in KOYAANISQATSI. This film makes use of time-lapse photography and a Phil Glass soundtrack to show the natural growth of a plot of land and the literally synthetic growth of a plot of urbanity. The director's bias is not hard to guess. At times; the city footage looks like a Jarvik 7 artificial heart going loco and devouring human beings, or, to be more definitive, New Yorkers...
Commando is a movie-industry manifestation of Reagan era jingoism. The capitalists in Tinsletown want to cash in on the rising tide of cultural bias. Thus, the emerging genre of movies that are cinematic representations of the ultra-conservative Id. This new genre usually features an actor such as Schwarzenegger, Stallone or some other symbol of the American y-chromosome bounding about blasting anyone with an accent or a darker skin tone. Commando is such a byproduct of political isolationism and flat-out hate...
Aileen Greenberg, the WSA's student liaison to the Division of Research, said her group several years ago discussed a plan to have students edit the case studies in response to what it perceived as a sexist bias, a suggestion incorporated beginning this year...