Word: opinionizing
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...defendants does not necessarily serve the interests of justice. The state has an interest in finding out what really happened that night off campus. Abiding uncertainty does not make for a gripping TV show. But somehow in these very public cases that are tried in the court of public opinion long before they reach the court of law, we lower our standards too easily. Maybe the conflict and confusion surrounding the Duke case will make us watch a bit more skeptically, suspend judgment a while longer, the next time either the prosecutors or the defense try to persuade...
...lengthy disclaimer that while the organizers welcome “dialogue” and all that good stuff, these events should not be taken as endorsement of Hirsi Ali’s views, nor should she be considered “to be representative for the Dutch public opinion on these issues.” It may be worth reminding the community that this disclaimer exists because Hirsi Ali has lived under the most rigorous police protection since the murder of the filmmaker Theo van Gogh in November 2004, when a note threatening her life was found pinned...
...Quality” and “Easiness” was 0.61 and that between “Quality” and “Sexiness” was 0.30. The authors say their results “suggest that about half of the variation in student opinion survey scores used by universities for promotion, tenure, and teaching award decisions may be due to the easiness of the course and the sexiness of the professor.” Felton mentioned that “correlations aren’t necessarily causal,” but pointed out that by taking...
...meeting that spelled Summers’ downfall, 13 professors rose to attack the president two weeks after he forced Kirby to resign. None spoke in Summers’ defense. The turning point of the meeting came when engineering professor Frederick H. Abernathy asked Summers for his opinion on the controversy swirling around economist Andrei Shleifer...
...knowledgeable of the facts and circumstances to be able to express an opinion as a consequence of my recusal,” Summers said, eliciting murmurs and eye-rolling from the audience...