Word: opinionizing
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...convenience of access to DirecTV in their rooms. Television may often serve us ill, but it is not a useless tool altogether. Many students will leave Harvard to serve their communities and the nation but they are barely aware of current events or the forces that shape the American opinion. Access to television will help alleviate the isolation inside the infamous “Harvard bubble.” Another criticism of television in dorm rooms is that it would detract from the communal experience of gathering in common rooms. But strangers do not meet in common rooms to bond...
...British prime minister has announced that he will resign on June 27. Ironically accused of both zealotry and servility, Blair has been a true leader to the British people, always acting on his beliefs. Unfortunately, public opinion has washed Blair’s approval rating—once a record high of 82 percent, now a low of 26 percent—out with the tide. But Blair has stuck to his beliefs, even when the public has grown impatient waiting for results, and history will remember him as a wise leader who tried to steer a reluctant populous onto...
...public routinely marvels over leaders who refuse to bow to conventional wisdom. Critics claim such "stubbornness" is the tragic flaw of a popular leader, but in fact, such fortitude is the welcome sign of a true leader. Public opinion may change on a whim—it faces no consequences—but a leader’s decisions affect an entire country. That leader is stubborn when he refuses to change a failed policy, but he is spineless when he changes his personal beliefs to curry favor with the public...
...every size and description. He flies commercial most of the time to use less CO2 and buys offsets to maintain a carbon-neutral life. In tandem with Hurricane Katrina and a rising chorus of warning from climate scientists, Gore's film helped trigger one of the most dramatic opinion shifts in history as Americans suddenly realized they must change the way they live. In a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, an overwhelming majority of those surveyed-90% of Democrats, 80% of independents, 60% of Republicans-said they favor "immediate action" to confront the crisis...
...part of the change," he told the crowd. "No one else is going to do it. The politicians are paralyzed. The people have to do it for themselves!" He was getting charged up now. "Our democracy hasn't been working very well-that's my opinion. We've made a bunch of serious policy mistakes. But it's way too simple and way too partisan to blame the Bush-Cheney Administration. We've got checks and balances, an independent judiciary, a free press, a Congress-have they all failed us? Have we failed ourselves...