Word: opinionizing
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...French of all political colors, déclinisme has been a hot topic in recent years. Bookstores are full of jeremiads like France is Falling, The Great Waste, The War of the Two Frances and The Middle Class Adrift. Talk-show guests and opinion columnists decry France's fading fortunes, and even the French rugby team's failure at the World Cup - held in France this year - was chewed over as an index of national decay. But most of those laments involve the economy, and Sarkozy's ascension was due largely to his promise to attend to them...
...more difficult task will be to change French thinking. Though it is perilous to generalize about 60 million people, there is a strain in the national mind-set that distrusts commercial success. Opinion polls show that more young French aspire to government jobs than to careers in business. "Americans think that if artists are successful, they must be good," says Quemin. "We think that if they're successful, they're too commercial. Success is considered bad taste...
Pity Pervez Musharraf. For a military dictator torn between the forces of Islamic extremism and international opinion, even a trip to the museum is fraught. When the General opened Pakistan's National Art Gallery in August, he was confronted with gutsy pieces tackling an array of provocative subjects - from burqas to madrasahs to militarism. He paused for a long time at Left Right, a video installation about the omnipresence of Pakistan's army by the young artist Hamra Abbas, who depicts soldiers patrolling land, sea and desert...
...Harvard will forever rule like they want to, a dictatorship that will never care about students,” the anonymous commentator wrote. “The ad board should reflect the democratic opinion of Harvard students in our community, not the arbitrary opinion of out of touch deans that did not go to Harvard...
...poll after opinion poll, about 7 in 10 Australians say climate change and water are issues important enough to influence their (compulsory) votes at the Nov. 24 election. "Climate change is a big problem," says McClelland. "Just what the answer is I'm not sure. But whoever is in government, they've got to address it." It's not just farmers who are feeling the heat; water restrictions are now a fact of life for the 80% of Australians who live in cities. In Adelaide, Peg Wilson and her neighbors cannot hose their gardens for more than three hours...