Word: opinionizing
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...When Frederick H. Abernathy, the McKay professor of mechanical engineering, asked for Summers’ opinion on the matter, the president’s response elicited some murmurs of disapproval from professors...
...public-opinion battle over domestic eavesdropping, Bush won the first round by arguing that he needed the unchecked power to learn "if there are people inside our country who are talking with al-Qaeda." With poll numbers split on the issue, spooked Senators hunkered down. But in recent days, Senate Democrats and the Judiciary Committee's Republican chairman, Arlen Specter, have fired off nine letters to the Justice Department and the White House demanding information on the domestic-spying program. At Senate hearings last week, the former head of the National Security Agency refused even in closed session...
Wearing a nametag that read “Sex Lady,” Laura A. Stuart, a health educator at MIT Medical, polled the class on questions like “Is it okay for a girl to ask a guy out?” (majority opinion was “yes”) and “Is it okay to ask someone out over e-mail?” (slightly more than half answered “no?...
...Summers said, though, that he did discuss Kirby’s decision with him prior to his resignation. “Any decision like this is a mutual one,” Summers said. Summers characterized his relationship with Kirby as respectful but sometimes marked by differences of opinion. “I think we had common objectives. There were certainly moments when there were differences in view, certainly at some point there were tensions,” Summers said. “But I think it...is a relationship based on mutual respect.” KIRBY...
...minor blasphemy of the cartoon in Denmark seem like nothing. They ridicule the Prophet and all Muslim beliefs. But I defend the rights of the cartoonist. I think that if there's a free press, there's a right to commit blasphemy. If you cannot criticize or express an opinion about a religion in the modern era, we're in serious trouble...