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...theory that has gained influence among sociologists is that some members of stigmatized groups, when faced with stressful situations, expect themselves to do worse - a prophecy that fulfills itself. These expectations, which can occur even in otherwise fair (or fair-seeming) situations - such as, say, a standardized test - produce stress and threaten cognitive function. The effect is called "stereotype threat," and African-Americans, girls, even jocks have all been shown susceptible to stereotype threat. (See pictures of the world's most celebrated senior citizens...
...weren’t any suitable for-pay options such as iTunes, weren’t committing a copyright infraction. Perhaps, Nesson now surmised, such activity wasn’t illegal at all, falling under the umbrella of what is known to the legal community as “fair...
...going over well. In private e-mails later posted to Nesson’s blog, some of the nation’s top copyleft academics—the very people who Nesson had intended to recruit as expert witnesses for his side—had decried the idea. Fair use is typically assessed based on a four-factor test that includes such questions as how much of a particular published material is being copied and what effect the copying might have on the material’s value. Teachers re-producing a few paragraphs of a book...
...conform his personal conduct to the standards of good citizenship and good sportsmanship." Another section of the contract states that player must "obey the Club's training rules, and pledge himself to the to the American public and to the Club to conform to high standards of personal conduct, fair play, and good sportsmanship." High standards of personal conduct? Fair play? Sportsmanship? Doesn't violating a league's drug policy fly in the face of all those morals? Doesn't this give the Dodgers leeway to rip up the deal...
...debate over whether the process was fair and whether the criteria were intelligently chosen will go on for years and will eventually become an important part of the history of American capitalism and the banking system. In the meantime, the public has loved watching the tension of big companies pitted against big government. Rich and famous bankers have been ridiculed in public. Some have lost their jobs. Hank Paulson, a well-built former Dartmouth football player and former head of Goldman Sachs and mild-mannered Ben Bernanke have been accused of manipulating a major decision by a public company, Bank...