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Old 06-09-2010, 07:47 PM
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The study shows that the overwhelming number of books chosen “reflect themes congenial [or favorable towards] the academic left...

...In the final list of major findings, the NAS stated that “our study brings to light a now well-documented instance of systemic liberal bias in American colleges and universities.”
Well, duh.

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In the report, the NAS recounts the controversy that ensued when the book, Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich...
I read Ererich's book Nickled and Dimed, and while I might not agree with Erenreich's general world view outside of the book, I did appreciate her book as mostly truth concerning low paid occupations overwhelmingly staffed with women.
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