Word: opinionating
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...Supreme Court now are not so good," said a statement issued by the American Civil Liberties Union and eight other national legal and gay-rights organizations deeply involved in legal wars over marriage. "The U.S. Supreme Court typically does not get too far ahead of either public opinion or the law in the majority of states...
...replacement as university president should have been, despite the fact that virtually all of the candidates were publicly known and had been profiled extensively in the media. No student, professor, or campus organization I know of openly supported a particular candidate, even though many had private opinions they would readily share. (I was barred from expressing my opinion as a reporter covering the search, so I will do so now: I favored Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan or Howard Hughes Medical Institute chief Thomas R. Cech, a Nobel laureate in biology...
...future will be poorer. And so as irritating as a group like SLAM can be, the next time I read an overly shrill statement given in support of one of their campaigns, I’ll at least respect the fact that they’re expressing an opinion in an effort to make Harvard a better place. It’s their silent opponents who are doing Harvard the disservice...
...These groups could make a strong impact in the elections. UKIP won just 2% of the vote and no seats in the 2005 British general election, but some opinion polls currently put the party ahead of the ruling Labour Party, owing largely to voter disgust over the parliamentary-expenses scandal in London. In the Netherlands, the anti-Islamic Geert Wilders could see his Freedom Party overtake the Christian Democrats of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende. (Read "Dutch Shrug for Anti-Muslim Film...
...Brown dismissed the suggestion. Labour's term doesn't expire until June 2010. But rumors are swirling that Labour backbenchers are collecting signatures on a petition asking for Brown to step aside. Some opinion polls are suggesting that Labour might even slide into third or fourth place in some parts of the country in Thursday's municipal and European elections. So nobody is taking bets on the Brown government lasting into next year. (See pictures of Brown as he prepared for power...