Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Since the late seventies, it is my sad opinion that CLS has had an absolutely disastrous effect on the intellectual and institutional life of Harvard Law School," said Bator, who served as deputy solicitor general for the Justice Department...
Spence said earlier this year that he would have to gauge campuswide opinion of both the current system and an honor system before he would even consider switching. Though the report compiled by Melendez and Marquand was completed early this week, Spence said earlier this year that it might be next spring before he takes a look at the report...
...wherever it wishes. In the case of South Africa today, or even in the case of U.S. policy toward that country today, Harvard simply is not that important. But if Harvard cannot have a "policy" on South Africa, that does not release it from the obligation to register an "opinion" on the matter. If we decide to remain involved in South Africa, whether through "intensive dialogue," proxy votes, or any other means, we are registering an opinion that we at least partially condone the apartheid system. If we divest, we will not, as the so-called pragmatists will undoubtedly charge...
...censorship did not go unnoticed. TASS PURGES GOD jeered a headline in the Milan daily Il Giornale. But otherwise the reaction in Western Europe, a prime target of Gorbachev's comments, was both impressed and worried. A common opinion among political analysts there was that "the charm offensive of Gorbachev," as the Paris daily Le Matin called it, might succeed in putting Reagan on the defensive at their November meeting in Geneva. The Bonn daily General-Anzeiger noted the "knowledge of details" that Gorbachev had demonstrated in the interview and added delicately that Reagan "is not known for having...
...action before taking it, even saying one thing while preparing to do the opposite. Those who manipulate the news now have a clear advantage over those who seek to report it and over a public trying to fathom what it all means. The ability to manipulate public opinion was systematized under Franklin D. Roosevelt, the first President to give importance to the role of press secretary. It has become an art form under Ronald Reagan. The press's constant worry about being misled accounts for most of those acrimonious spats between White House reporters and presidential press secretaries. Larry Speakes...