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...just two examples from a new antisexist rendering of hundreds of widely known biblical texts that was issued last week by the National Council of Churches.* The aim of the balanced (six men, six women) committee that prepared the translations was to rid Holy Writ of the "male bias" that supposedly runs through both the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures and subsequent English translations. This means expunging any references to a male God, such as "the Lord," "the Father" and masculine pronouns like "he." Says Committee Member the Rev. Sharon Ringe of the Methodist Theological School in Delaware, Ohio: "Much hurt...
...that Galbraith is arguing is that you don't want to bias the economy against agriculture," said C. Peter Timmer, Black professor of agriculture and business, adding that, because farmers live far removed from the political centers of third-world countries, their views tend to be ignored by the politicians, to the harm...
...people have yet to be convinced. As Myra Mayman, director of the Office of the Arts, explains, there is a strong bias against performers as academics. "The typical comment of the critic is. 'Talk to an artist? Why? They don't know what they're doing. Mayman says...
...subtle arguments. Tribe, a brilliant scholar and appellate hotshot with a poised, aggressive courtroom style--he is 6-2 in Supreme Court arguments--found himself talking to jurors who, as Judge Goettel admitted, "don't know much, because they are obviously the persons who start off with the least bias...
...doing nothing." Individual discrimination is difficult and costly to prove; under most affirmative-action plans, whole classes of minorities get preference over whites in hiring and advancement, regardless of whether they have been personally discriminated against. The rationale is that drastic steps are needed to overcome centuries of racial bias. If the court follows its own reasoning in future cases, sweeping affirmative-action plans could be struck down. As a result of the Memphis case, said Blackmun in his Cosmos Club talk, "affirmative action was pretty well interred...