Word: opinionizing
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...that encounter, however, will be established after the event, when the Pope addresses the Valencia conference and sets out his views on family. Angelo Cardinal Scola, the Patriarch of Venice, a Ratzinger disciple who has written extensively on this issue, will be in Spain. "Rather than a 'better opinion,' we speak of a 'prevalent tradition,'" he tells Time. "The word family has a meaning. The word marriage means a union between a man and woman open to life. I hold that a homosexual couple does not constitute a family." It seems likely that Benedict has chosen his destination strategically...
...doing business there, Merkel would never think of giving Russia a free hand in its own backyard - a second Yalta, as some Russian commentators have called it. Nor could any other G-8 leader. Secret deals to divide up the world "just aren't how Western governments or public opinion work nowadays," says Lyne. There's no simple way to solve the complex challenges a buoyant but flawed Russia poses. And it's worth remembering that today's Russia is a very different beast from the old Soviet Union, with its aggressive military posture and proselytizing ideology. That...
...lobby empties, and the staff is free to read, chat, or goof off until the next set of shows. Few jobs pay for pleasure reading. It’s as if the mind can finally shut off for a much needed nap. But the nagging voice of general opinion lingers, still telling the butter-drenched popped-collar crowd to go do what we’re supposed to be doing. Maybe that’s why my Dartmouth friend volunteers for an archeological organization. Or why I found myself at a publicity event in a swanky restaurant for a campaign...
...more than four years without even being charged with a crime. Indeed, though the U.S. has condemned the hunger strikers at Gitmo, just last year the White House hailed a hunger-striking Iranian dissident for showing "that he is willing to die for his right to express his opinion...
...court issued a strong rebuke to the President in other ways as well. Justice Anthony Kennedy's concurring opinion reaffirmed a standing legal precedent that the President's authority is limited in areas that have already defined laws - even, Kennedy pointedly adds, in "time of crisis." This could call into question the President's authority to authorize domestic wiretapping without a warrant...