Word: opinionizing
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...brought more problems than it's solved." Donors reward bad governments, he argues. "Where Africa is coming right and is on an upward trend, that attracts business. Where it's doing badly, that attracts aid." Oppenheimer consults regularly with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who leads a growing body of opinion on the continent that has come to the same conclusion. "In the last 50 years, you've spent $400 billion in aid to Africa," Kagame told TIME last year. "But what is there to show...
...whole world and its mother has expressed an opinion about Yale senior Aliza Shvarts and her ill-begotten senior art project, which allegedly involved repeatedly inseminating herself and taking abortofacient drugs, filming her miscarriages, and then smearing the blood on a big plastic cube. Speculation continues over whether she actually carried out the acts or whether (as is more likely) it’s all a big “creative fiction” in aid of discourse, discomfort, and one student’s 15 minutes of fame...
...list of statistics—the annual American ice cream market is $12 billion, and the annual video game market is $20 billion, for example—that make the amount spent on elections look like pocket change. “We are competing, and losing badly, in my opinion, for the attention of people compared to all the other things that can occupy your time and money, ranging from entertainment to goods that you like to buy,” he says...
...sponsored by Zafran, aims “to ensure that the exclusionary implications of DADT never pervade Harvard’s campus.” Zafran said that the act “affirms the student body’s opinion that nondiscrimination policy is the right policy...
...campaign enters its final days, opinion polls are split, with some showing Livingstone in the lead and others suggesting that Johnson will prevail. After eight years of Livingstone's city administration, one of Johnson's advantages is his pledge to serve a maximum of two terms if elected, and to improve accountability at City Hall. The mayor exercises considerable strategic powers over policing and emergency services, transport, planning and regeneration in the capital. In theory, he is held to account by the 25 elected members of the London Assembly, but in practice, assembly members can do little more than question...