Word: opinionizing
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What is your opinion of the U.N.'s removal of Everglades National Park from endangered status?-Debbie DeNeese WILTON MANORS, FLA.You know, I don't know enough about it right now. Is it good news? Just based on personal experience and under this Administration, anyone who announces that something is off an endangered list, I'd be looking for bulldozers behind 'em, you know? [Laughs...
...creature of its own society and culture. If any doctrinal agreement can be made among all parts of the Anglican Communion, it must be based on fundamental tenets, not the issues of the day. Anglicanism is distinct from other Christian denominations by its flexibility in accommodating vast differences of opinion. Long may this continue. Jeremy Goldsmith, LONDON...
...mount a successful challenge to the court, Democrats not only need to have public opinion behind them; they also have to mobilize it effectively. During a handful of periods in American history--like the New Deal--congressional opposition to the court was so intense that the court did an about-face. More frequently, though, opposition has been more diffuse, leading the court to beat only a partial retreat or ignore its critics. During the 1960s, for example, Congress complained about the Warren Court's school prayer and apportionment decisions, but there was no public outcry, and the court stood...
...Since the Supreme Court declared segregated schools "inherently unequal" in 1954, scholars have been arguing that students learn better in racially diverse classrooms, and five justices at least gave a nod to that view in today's opinions. But as Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Clarence Thomas in a concurring opinion and even Justice Breyer in dissent acknowledged, the evidence is mixed at best...
...vote, the court struck down the districts' plans. Three justices joined Chief Justice John Roberts' opinion saying that, in schools not intentionally segregated, the desire for racial balance isn't enough to trump the Constitution's general ban on treating people differently because of their race. Justice Anthony "Swing Vote" Kennedy agreed with the striking-down bit, but he wrote a separate opinion saying schools could consider race as a factor if they did so in ways precisely gauged to achieve diversity. The districts' plans were too crude - Seattle had only two categories: white and non-white - and too ambiguous...