Word: neutrality
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...especially if they are from the host nation. I should be neutral, but if we have good performances from our Italian athletes, that will improve participation...
...Your special issue confirmed what I have suspected for some time: TIME, once the best politically neutral current-affairs magazine, has morphed into a mouthpiece for assorted left-wing and green causes and commentators. I long for the TIME of the past, which reported on events around the world in a concise, accurate, unbiased manner, not the TIME that dedicates 46 pages to the kind of lightweight, feel-good articles I could find in the weekend magazine of my local newspaper. Robert Bogisich, Glen Iris, Australia...
Whether that is true or not (and many neutral observers would say the latter), the Administration has known for some months that its horse was heading for the knacker's yard: Musharraf's popularity at home has plummeted since March, when he suspended the independent-minded Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. That sparked massive protests by moderate Pakistanis, the people who had once backed the general against al-Qaeda terrorists and Taliban militants. With a general election looming in Pakistan, the Bush Administration began to write a new cover story, giving its hero an unlikely sidekick...
...Although the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest umbrella union, has remained neutral on the treaties, many unions - including the machinists, the Teamsters and the textile and service unions - came out strongly against the announced agreement. For the last six months they've run advertisements, sent letters, lobbied Congress, all to convince Democrats they shouldn't be handing Bush what some called...
...papillomavirus later in life, leaving female partners more likely to get cervical cancer. The cost of prevention, proponents say, is the brief trauma of the procedure. Says Edgar Schoen, former pediatrics chief at Kaiser Permanente, who led the 1989 American Association of Pediatrics circumcision task force, which came out neutral on cutting: "A newborn baby is programmed for stress and recovers quickly." Opponents, on the other hand, say foreskin-related afflictions are rare, condoms block STDs, and circumcision has its risks. Michelle Richardson, of Fort Worth, Texas, says her 5-year-old has two genital disorders due to his botched...