Word: opinionizing
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...local police, but the public fascination with this case seems to stem from recollections of Susan Smith's tearful televised pleas to an alleged carjacker to return the two sons she had already drowned in a South Carolina lake. Bereaved relatives have become suspects in the court of public opinion. Such before-the-evidence perceptions overshadow the loss of a precious child. Bill McReynolds, a retired journalism professor at the University of Colorado, has played Santa Claus for the past three years at the Ramseys' Christmas party for neighborhood kids. He remembers how JonBenet gave him a vial of stardust...
...won’t comment on his intellectual level. You can form your own opinion on that. I think that like President Summers he very much wants to do a good job as president, but has fallen under the influence of some people whose judgment he respects and whose judgment in a string of occasions has not proven to be very wise...
Fundamentally, it will be a dangerous precedent if the government is able to tie federal funding to the whims of political opinion, invalidating the protection of the nondiscrimination code for all students. If the Pentagon really can take away massive grants that have literally nothing to do with the Department of Defense, there’s nothing but congressional restraint that stops them from changing any other university policy on a political whim. All students, whether queer or straight, conservative or progressive, powerful or powerless, should be concerned about the implications of that precedent for the sake of academic freedom...
...confirmation hearing that's likely to start in early November, President Bush will hold a photo op with former chief justices of the Texas Supreme Court who will testify to Miers' qualifications and legal mind. The White House's 20-person "confirmation team" will line up news conferences, opinion pieces and letters to the editor by professors and former colleagues who can talk about Miers' experience dealing with such real-world issues as the Voting Rights Act when she was a Dallas city council member and Native American tribal sovereignty when she was chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission...
Your editorial opposing increases in the living wage exposes a dangerously flawed logic buttressed by internal inconsistencies. I don’t know much about the living costs in Boston and Cambridge, so I have no opinion on what the living wage should be. But your editorial repeatedly conflates arguments against a specific living wage with arguments against the very concept of a living wage. Perhaps $20 per hour is the right living wage rate, perhaps it is wrong, but if Harvard’s janitors are indeed members of the University community, they must be accorded a wage that...