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...controversy - even among allies. Many of the French President's woes exist because voters are confused about what he stands for. His decisions seem to contradict each other, they complain, and his policies are often ideologically schizophrenic. "For the first two years of his presidency, Sarkozy convinced French public opinion that all he had to do was announce reform for it to be as good as done - that his word and desired results were one and the same," says Denis Muzet, president of Médiascopie, a public-opinion research institute in Paris. "Since last January, however, people have...
...Mapuche leaders but also provoked charges of brutality after the shooting of children, journalists and other bystanders. Three Mapuches youths have been killed, and Caifal claims two others were shot in the eyes. What's more, whereas left-wing terrorist groups garnered little public sympathy during Pinochet's rule, opinion polls in Chile today show widespread support for Mapuche efforts to regain land...
...Those of you who want to change the world should know the court of public opinion is paramount,” he said. “Public law is much more influenced by public opinion than they’d like to admit...
...opinion he provided to the U.S. District Court in Ocala, Fla., Bursztajn referred to Grace’s interview with Duckett at the time as “apparently unanticipated public humiliation... contributing to the cause of her suicide...
...Hanes had made her own reputation in Iowa as an aggressive prosecutor of child abuse charges. The July 1999 Los Angeles Times story has her laughing at public speculation in Iowa that she unduly influenced Bennett's diagnoses. But a 2007 federal appeals court opinion on a 1995 Iowa shaken-slammed baby murder case said that she had improperly ordered medical evidence in the case withheld from the defense, and, in a note, observed that "the evidence of Dr. Bennett's marriage to prosecutor Hanes should have been permitted at trial to imply bias." The appeals court judges said that...