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...Social biases are not that different from perceptual biases,” Banaji said. She said that people demonstrate similar blindness in their judgments of other people, ignoring the information that does not fit into their existing “theory.” “The main question is ‘Can human beings be fair in their judgment of others?’” Banaji said, adding that putting aside prejudice is much harder than it seems because conscious knowledge of the prejudice is not enough to erase it. Approaching the subject from...
...main-street appeal and hosting savvy to succeed Barker? I'm not sure, though there's a larger applicant pool available now that Today/Millionaire host Meredith Vieira has proved the news/game-show-crossover potential. By June, at the rate things are going, Katie Couric just might be looking for her next opportunity at CBS. I'll bet she's great with pets...
BRIAN WILLIAMS, NBC News anchor, on Jon Stewart. Williams called Stewart's Daily Show the "vitamin supplement" to the "main meal" of the network news...
Iraq's new constitution, approved by 80% of Iraq's voters, is a road map to partition. The constitution allows Iraq's three main groups to establish powerful regions, each with its own government, substantial control over the oil resources in its territory and even its own regional army. Regional law supersedes federal law on almost all matters. The central government is so powerless that, under the constitution, it cannot even impose...
...would not be easy. Some groups would resist bloodily. But the adverse consequences of partition have already occurred. There's no reason to believe that formalizing Iraq's breakup would make anything worse--in fact, it might even help contain the violence. It's useful to outline the three main arguments raised against partition and explain why none are as convincing as their proponents portray them...