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Another firm boasted in its advertisements in this newspaper about how it “put a poet in charge of designing an automated trading block.” I can see Emily Dickinson scrawling slant rhyme over a life of corporate drudgery now—I had never entertained the thought / of running Lehman’s automated trading block...
...much. The network famously calls itself "fair and balanced," but "fair and balancing" would be a better description: Roger Ailes repeatedly describes his news network as a counterweight, on the right, to the rest of the news media. His argument that nearly every other mainstream media outlet slants left is self-serving and mostly wrong. (The MSM really slant toward the institutional, establishmentarian center, which is a bias as dangerous as any other.) But while "fair and balanced" may be propaganda, it doesn't seem to be fooling anyone. Conservatives see Fox as a comfortable haven for their worldview; their...
Walt and Mearsheimer's central thesis is that a pro-Israel slant pervades American foreign policy toward the Middle East, and that it is the result of a powerful pro-Israel lobby comprised of a “loose coalition of individuals and organizations...
...more violent uncertainty in Kashmir. Either way, the need of the hour is cool-headed thinking from the Indian government: While preserving existing peace-talks, they must act fast to outthink terrorists. Meanwhile, the Indian people and media need to resist the temptation to provide a religious or nationalistic slant to terrorism before any evidence is collected—I would hope we’ve learnt that lesson by now. Ravi Agrawal ’05-’06 was a Crimson news editor. He is presently eating mangoes and writing at home before tasting the real world...
...gonna wait 20 years for caselaw for the univeristy to decide whether it’s O.K. to discriminate or not.”His BGLTSA co-chair Ryan R. Thorenson ‘07, agrees. “The administration has a certain conservative slant in terms of changing institutional behavior. The nondiscrimination code is regarded as a big change,” he says. “More specifically, this is an issue where the college thinks it can wait four years, and the student activists will graduate.”Those activists cite other schools which have...