Word: opiniones
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...honest citizen might miss or misunderstand. It has gotten to the point that even politicians cannot be expected to read the bills that come before them, so that they farm the work out to aides and advisors who have more time and a greater inclination to develop an informed opinion...
...everyone—not just those who have pored over the texts—seems to have an opinion. Students not much better versed than myself in matters of policy seem utterly committed to one or the other side of the debate. When I am confronted regarding my views on health care, admitting my moderate ignorance is taken as conceding the correctness of my challenger. Some people even see my lack of knowledge on the issue as a moral affront...
...their favorite politicians. Taking a strong position on more than a few issues requires either making a snap judgment based more on ideology than on reasoned analysis or trusting someone else—an expert or a leader—to do the hard work of forming your opinion for you. Necessary as this is, it is sobering to think that our democracy has become too complex for its citizens to handle alone...
...court of public opinion, rehabilitation generally starts with remorse. But since being hauled out of his home in handcuffs on Dec. 9, Blagojevich has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. As the days lurch toward a June 2010 trial, he's trying a new tack that happens to dovetail nicely with his love of the spotlight: fighting the allegations with sheer ubiquity. His new martyr-toned memoir, The Governor, and its attendant media blitz have been balletic exercises in the deflection of blame, and recent reports that he'll appear on the upcoming season of Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice suggest that...
...Your opinion of the Olympic-torch relay - which kicked off Oct. 22 with a traditional flame-lighting ceremony in Greece - is likely to reflect your opinion of the Olympics themselves. If international cooperation and glory keep you misty-eyed from the opening ceremony through the last television montage, then you'll love the heady symbolism of the torch relay, a "journey of harmony" in which a succession of runners transports a flame lit by the sun's rays from the Games' ancient birthplace to the host site - in 2010, that's Vancouver - over...