Word: opinionizing
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...cannot sit on the sidelines taking pictures forever. At some point action, or at least debate, is demanded. In the future when I see people arguing over abortion, the war in Iraq, or tax cuts, I will get involved. Not to persuade them, but to persuade myself that my opinion matters...
...leadership of Hamas has long demonstrated a keen ability to stay onside with Palestinian public opinion. That may help explain why the movement - under pressure from Arab governments to make it easier to stand up to U.S. pressure to cut all financial aid - has been debating a move toward a de facto two-state solution. But if the anger generated on the streets by Abbas's referendum ultimatum is sufficiently widespread, Hamas may decide to call his bluff - because they believe they can win the issue where it counts, in the streets...
...Wall Street Journal coverage of leveraged buyouts of Safeway supermarkets. She has also written for The New York Times and Newsweek.Her interest in journalism began early and ran deep.In fifth grade, she inadvertently made waves when she conducted a poll of fellow students’ opinions on abortion and the Vietnam War.“Not being the loudest person on the block, not being one who regularly interrupted in class or caused a scene, I discovered that through writing I could make my views heard,” Faludi told Brian Lamb in a 1992 “Booknotes?...
...completely, utterly unequipped to do that.”She began covering business, which she says changed her perception of the business world. She grew up in a family of artists—not businesspeople—and worked on a college newspaper where she says the predominant opinion among writers was that “business is bad,” and that “they all are greedy lowlifes.”“I just came face-to-face with what I didn’t know,” she says of her early...
...fierce debate between those who claimed Ngo was an apologist for the reeducation camps of an oppressive Vietnamese government and those who claimed his views were being misrepresented. Ngo was “sympathetic to the [communist] regime” and “very dangerous to public opinion,” according to Tran Quang Tuan, a leader among local refugees.Cheu, who had spent time in a Vietnamese reeducation camp, was found innocent by reason of insanity the following May.And in what appeared to be another act of arson in October, the Margaret Fuller House sustained severe damage.The Phillips...