Word: opinionizing
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Anxiety about avian flu is spreading far faster than the disease. Watch enough reports on television about the outbreaks in Turkey, and you could worry yourself sick. In my opinion, the anxiety is unfounded. ? At the moment, the H5N1 influenza virus is mainly a threat to birds. The virus can infect and kill other animals but only if they have close contact with infected birds. The big concern is that it will gain the ability to pass easily from person to person, possibly by exchanging genes with an ordinary flu virus in the body of some unlucky person infected...
...Harvard’s general counsel, praised the decision in a statement released today for recognizing the University’s compelling interest in preserving students’ privacy and highlighting HUPD’s practice of releasing crime reports whenever an arrest is made. "The opinion upholds the University's decision to protect our students' privacy while at the same time recognizes that when the Harvard University Police Department makes arrests, records are available to the public," Iuliano said. In a hearing before the SJC in November, Iuliano argued that the University has a compelling interest in withholding...
...Last November, The Los Angeles Times reported that the Pentagon pays to place both news reports and opinion pieces in the Iraqi media. Some articles are ghost-written by American soldiers and then planted in the Iraqi press; other payments are made to Iraqi journalists who write their own copy but toe the American line...
...sense propaganda is part of every war effort, and the Pentagon would be derelict if it did not try to influence public opinion in Iraq. Understanding clerics’ viewpoints and seeking their advice is an integral part of that campaign. But instead of paying them to evaluate American propaganda, we should be encouraging and assisting these clerics in making their own case to the Iraqi people...
...went downhill from there, to the point where the British are just as unwelcome in the Shi'ite south as the Americans are in the Sunni Triangle. An opinion poll conducted shortly before the Dec 15 elections showed that Basrans are overwhelmingly hostile toward the British. So how come the British suffer so few casualties, as compared to the Americans? That's mainly because, unlike the Sunni insurgents who attack the Americans in and around Baghdad, the Shi'ite militias in the south already wield political power - they may resent the British presence, but it doesn't stop them from...