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The government is also hatching new plans to support small businesses, many of which are family-owned, have little access to capital markets and are getting squeezed by the credit crunch. Ronald Pofalla, the general secretary of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), says, "We think that now is the...
A study in the Jan. 9 issue of the journal Science presents strong evidence that even people who aspire to tolerance - who would consider themselves nonracist - still harbor unconscious biases powerful enough to prevent them from confronting overt racists or from being upset by other people's racist behavior. The...
But Dovidio says that unconscious biases can be overcome through self-awareness as North Americans learn to free blacks from the negative associations that have metaphorically fettered them for so long. As a measure of the difficulty of allowing our better angels to prevail, however, consider this question: Do you...
“The process surrounding the acquisition began many months ago,” Harvard spokeswoman Lauren Marshall said. “When real estate opportunities arise and are presented to us, we consider them carefully.”
It would be interesting, just for the fun and justice of it, to subject Rumsfeld to four hours in a stress position - standing stock still with his arms extended, naked, in a cold room after maybe two hours' sleep. But that's not going to happen. Indeed, it seems probable...