Word: opinionizing
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...serving them coffee and donuts. Professor Emeritus Richard A. Musgrave says Bok saw himself as “an instrument of serving the community effectively, being trustworthy, and really appealing to everybody.”However, Bok was not just a good listener; he frequently offered up his own opinions, too.“The most distinctive feature of Bok’s presidency was...his habit of addressing controversial and divisive issues by publishing public letters to the community at large which analyzed the issues, addressed the range of opinion, and defended his own conclusion,” Morton...
...thing, and one thing only: Larry Summers’ resignation. According to a Google News search, the nine days since the official announcement have generated over 1,000 articles about Summers in the United States alone. Seems like every major paper in the country has chimed in with an opinion about the Harvard presidency—as if the shakeup at Mass. Hall were the most important thing ever to happen in higher education. But what’s different, exactly, now that Summers is leaving? As the columnists preach on about all the brokenhearted undergrads mourning at the President?...
...then it was outlawed in 2003 by the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to consider again the constitutionality of this abominable procedure. If the Court were to find the ban unconstitutional, thereby allowing this horrific practice, it would not only be rejecting an opinion held by the majority of Congress, but also a view held by 70% of Americans. To be clear, the 2000 decision defines partial-birth abortion as a procedure that involves “intentionally delivering into the vagina a living unborn child, or a substantial portion thereof, for the purpose...
...meeting, Gross said that student opinion is vital to the success of the curricular review...
...confidence, there was no process by which the rest of the University could express itself. And I think that’s the thing you want to correct.”“It should be possible for the University as a whole to express an opinion rather than be limited to the FAS,” Lal said.But it might not be possible in the near term. As the University prepares to enter a period of transition under Interim President Derek C. Bok, the creation of such a body most likely will have to wait. Kellerman said that...