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Both the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination dismissed Goodwin’s case without a hearing, the EEOC finding that Goodwin’s case was without merit and that comments allegedly made by her supervisor did not demonstrate racial or gender bias...
...think there is quite a lot of race and gender bias going on here,” Hoxby said in an interview with The Crimson. “I think it’s really a pity. I think there are a few people being very unreflective about their behavior...
Neither Rothstein nor Card would directly address the accusations of bias...
...more severely restricted, at least until another member of the moderate-to-liberal wing departs the bench. In just the past three years, the court has ruled out capital punishment for the mentally retarded and juveniles while overturning a few death sentences because of incompetent legal counsel or racial bias in jury selection. Later this year, the court is scheduled to hear a much anticipated case concerning whether a Tennessee man on death row for the past 19 years can win a new trial because of fresh DNA evidence that may exonerate him. "These nagging questions of innocence have been...
Tomlinson, 60, a former Reader's Digest editor with a soft Appalachian drawl, tells TIME he had hoped to bring quiet change. "I worked for a year and a half inside the system to rectify" the bias issue, he says. Yet his moves--hiring a G.O.P. activist to monitor the political balance of the news show Now with Bill Moyers, bringing in CPB ombudsmen to police bias, shepherding the conservative Journal Editorial Report onto air--rankled some within and outside public broadcasting. John Lawson, president of the Association of Public Television Stations, says the problem...