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Hewitt counters that Romney is facing a double standard, born of a barely hidden bias. "It is unreasonable to demand that a Mormon candidate expose and defend his deepest beliefs in rational terms in order to reassure voters that he is of sound mind," he says. He warns Evangelicals hostile to Romney's religion against colluding with those he sees as hostile to all religions. "The secular left that does not like people of faith in the public square is very happy to have a group of Fundamentalists raise this issue and be a battering ram," Hewitt argues...
...when Turkey's Constitutional Court annulled the first round of elections in Parliament that would have made Gul President. Handpicked by his longtime ally Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Gul was ahead in the ballot, but the court, in a ruling that appeared to betray its secularist bias, upheld claims by Turkey's main secularist political party that the balloting was unconstitutional because a quorum wasn't present-no matter that the opposition engineered that shortfall by boycotting the vote, or that at least one President had previously been elected with a smaller quorum. Faced with this deadlock, Erdogan announced...
...officer was dispatched to Au Bon Pain to take a report of an unarmed robbery. The reporting party stated that while they were outside three unknown individuals approached them and made bias related comments and then attempted to steal their laptop and book bag. The reporting party stated that they grabbed their laptop and book bag and made their way inside the building. The reporting party stated that the three individuals then fled the area...
...York City: Being a city boy, I admit my bias, but there's nothing like running Central Park's 9.6-km loop (on dirt trails when possible) or a few times around the reservoir. The best times of all are on cold weekdays, when most people are at work, and on spring weekends...
...talented but disillusioned youngsters are leaving Britain. There is very little overt racial discrimination and harassment, and there are still job opportunities, but the perfect, rose-tinted perception of a country ascending on the back of economic growth is increasingly at odds with the subtle realities of adversity, bias and inequality endured by many here. It is these subtle realities that I am sure many of the estimated 300,000 French currently residing in Britain have experienced. Darren Pipe, KENT, ENGLAND I am one of the "successful" Frenchmen who spent many years abroad and decided to return to France...