Word: opinionizing
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...doesn’t judge. Scheduled panelist Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ’38, whose book “Cycles of American History” was read (or not read) by high schoolers across the nation, was notably missing from the fete. When asked for her opinion on the Pulitzer Prize winner’s absence, Ashley A.T. Tongret ’00 was unperturbed: “I was just disappointed that Conan O’Brien ’85 wasn’t here...
...What opinion do you have of the Bush administration, especially when it comes to various legal issues, like torture or Guantanamo...
...take into account how other people would react to that, that somebody would litigate, some prediction about what the courts would find.... In international law there are no courts other than American courts and the American Supreme Court to be concerned about, but there is the court of public opinion. And I think the lawyers advising the Bush administration missed an opportunity to use law to structure a more workable and acceptable approach and strategy in the current conflict...
This type of reticence is not what recruiters are looking for. The spirit is better enshrined in Aleksey Vayner’s declaration in his cover letter, “Impossible is just someone’s opinion.” How ironic that this gung-ho attitude, even if expressed with slightly more modesty in the typical Harvard student, is used as a rallying cry by those who would consign themselves to such a dreary desk...
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