Word: opinionizing
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...spectrum of human experience. To rap nerds, the members of the Wu are like family members, as well as familiar sides of one’s own personality. Who among us hasn’t had to argue like the RZA to make his ideas heard despite critical popular opinion? Or had a U-God moment, when your friends (or your labelmates) don’t call you back and you feel like you aren’t getting the respect you deserve? And, let’s be serious: who among us hasn’t behaved like...
...Chief Justice John Roberts observed in his opinion that "some risk of pain is inherent in any method of execution," and held that the Constitution condemns only "substantial" or "objectively intolerable" risks. Six other justices shared the chief's conclusion that Kentucky's approach passed muster, but only two of them - Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito - were willing to sign the chief's blueprint for deciding how much risk is too much, which included the vague standard that challengers must show that there were alternatives that were "feasible" and "readily implemented" that would "significantly" reduce a risk of severe pain...
...tournament eliminate all alcohol advertising. While we understand the sentiment, getting rid of beer ads is the wrong move. By airing the ads, the NCAA is not encouraging underage or binge drinking—or even endorsing drinking at all. The suggestion that the NCAA is expressing an opinion in favor of the products it allows to be advertised is absurd. Although the NCAA is certainly willing and within its rights to ban advertising that conflicts with its core principles, as it has done in the case of hard liquor ads, it does not find such an egregious conflict with...
There are no speeches or writings, no public records to tell us what Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - the future Pope Benedict XVI - thought of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. But the influential prelate, then head of the Vatican's office for internal doctrinal matters, clearly had a forceful opinion. Soon after the bombs fell on Baghdad, the topic came up in April 2003 as Ratzinger talked with fellow Cardinals Carlo Maria Martini of Italy and Paul Poupard of France at an intimate Vatican diplomatic reception. A Church official present that evening remembers the typically soft-spoken German shaking his fists...
...inevitable that Benedict's movements on the international stage will be compared with his predecessor's. John Paul had a finely tuned sense of how to shape world opinion through the mechanism of politics. Benedict is hoping that his broader philosophical themes will be applied to the politics of the day. Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Communita' di San Egidio, a leading Catholic diplomatic and inter-faith group, called Benedict "one of the keenest observers of modern religious life," whose expertise extends beyond his own Church. "John Paul had a specific geopolitical design from the start of his papacy...