Word: opinionating
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Last week, by a vote of 7 to 2, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Sokolow's detention on drug charges, in an opinion that granted federal agents broad discretion to use "drug-courier profiles" to question and search travelers at airports. Writing for the court, Chief Justice William Rehnquist conceded - that Sokolow's behavior could have been "consistent with innocent travel." But "taken together," his actions elicited "reasonable suspicion." Concluded Rehnquist: "The fact that these factors may be set forth in a 'profile' does not somehow detract from their evidentiary significance." Dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall saw things quite differently...
...Bush Administration, such protests are not necessarily all bad. Rather than pressure Shamir directly, Bush's top advisers seem content to let the intifadeh do it for them. "We can let the uprising proceed, let the pressures continue to work on public opinion in Israel and the United States," explains a senior Bush adviser, "and try to channel those pressures in constructive directions." So for the time being, the Administration feels that the best policy is one of patient incrementalism. "The President does not believe conditions now exist for making peace, but he would like to see those conditions fostered...
...violations a "grave situation," Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha warned that the Namibian peace process "could collapse within hours." Pretoria applied pressure on UNTAG's Finnish commander, Martti Ahtisaari, to reactivate some South African military forces and ordered others back to service on its own. Backed by Western public opinion for once, South Africa continued to threaten an end to the treaty. Declared Foreign Minister Botha: "SWAPO must surrender, lay down their arms, hoist a white flag...
...opinion piece appearing on April 11, entitled "Flipper Joins the Navy," inadvertently contained wording from a short article in the April 9 issue of The New York Times without attribution...
Whether the student officers like it or not, any HUSO resolution will be seen as representing student opinion. But HUSO members joined the group based upon their proficiency in their extracurricular activities rather than their ability to gauge campus sentiment. And members were not chosen as representatives by their groups, but rather chose to join HUSO on their own. Their insistence that they will defer to the Undergraduate Council on important matters does not help; it only shows that they will be ineffective, as well as unrepresentative...