Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...missed it, portrays a chagrined bear (emblazoned with a hammer and sickle) losing his fur while a nuclear power plant explodes in the backround. Viewing the Chernobyl disaster simply as a political embarassment to the Soviet government, rather than as a human tragedy, is repugnant. Whatever one's opinion of the Soviet government, it is incumbent upon us to sympathize with the Russian and Ukrainian peoples in a time of difficulty. Rama Kocherlakota GSAS Gerard Michael GSAS John March-Russell GSAS Noel Harold Kaylor GSAS Kathleen Gallo GSAS
...relative neglect of the issue of openness reflects a broader erosion of principles that all scholars as scholars share with one another concerning intersubjectively valid ideas of evidence and its assessment. The work itself, its arguments and evidence, is the thing, a more important thing, in my opinion, than knowing who paid for it. Openness is a value. So is my right to privacy. I always have been "open" about the sources of funding for my research, though I can imagine situations in which others would have good, not sinister or corrupt, reasons for not wanting...
...fellow Justices--for example, in constitutional questions regarding religion. Thus two years ago, she joined a 5-to-4 majority upholding the constitutionality of a town-sponsored Nativity scene in Rhode Island. With reasoning that Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz calls "extremely elegant," she sought in a concurring opinion to draw a line between government actions that accommodate religion and those that endorse it. Her thinking was later used by Justice John Paul Stevens to help support the majority's view in another religion case...
...intriguing example of O'Connor's independence came last week. Normally a strong supporter of police and prosecutors, she joined in a pair of significant rulings that strengthened the rights of black defendants (see box). One week earlier she astonished some court watchers by writing the majority opinion in a 5-to-4 libel decision requiring that in cases involving public concerns, private individuals must prove that damaging press assertions about them are false...
Sometimes O'Connor has teamed with Justices to her left, apparently because a case involved two competing principles that both appealed to her as a conservative. In March, for instance, weighing the demands of military authority against the exercise of religious belief, she rejected Rehnquist's majority opinion that the Air Force could enforce a dress code prohibiting religious headgear, in this case a yarmulke. Says Bruce Fein of the American Enterprise Institute: "She just wanted a little more military justification." On the same day, her close attention to procedural correctness led to another disappointment for conservatives...