Word: opinionizing
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...crazy. But I think many of those deaths were from people who weren't protected by the military, who decided to do their own thing, which in my opinion was just insane. I just can't imagine it. One of the themes in the book is that journalists are just as much targets as anybody else now. After Danny Pearl's horrible experience in Pakistan, as a white journalist with a British or American passport, you can fully expect to be paraded on TV and possibly killed on video, and have it circulated around the Internet. Journalists are seen...
...liked them a lot, actually. What amazed me about the Marines is that it was just like being in any other profession. I had a stereotypical view of anybody who joins the military. My opinion of people who joined the military was pretty much they must be sort of gung-ho, slightly crazed people who enjoy bar brawls and truck magazines. But in fact, it was a just a normal cross-section of society. You had the bookish Marines, you had the sporty marines, you had the geeky Marines. Every walk of life was represented. The only thing they...
...admired Justice O'Connor's flexibility in the court's contentious decisions. She eschewed rigidity in favor of nuance in each controversial case, and the U.S. has been the better for it. Gloria Kottick Iowa City, Iowa, U.S. The job of a judge is not to express a personal opinion but to read and apply the laws enacted by our elected representatives. A Justice is not authorized to change or ignore the law. How can we fairly enforce our laws if judges do not faithfully comply with them in every detail? Jon Moseley, Executive Director Legal Affairs Council Ashburn, Virginia...
...emerging cadre of more market-oriented community leaders dismisses that as so much noisy rhetoric. If you don't have a better plan for bringing jobs, they ask, then what's your point? Jackson is "entitled to his opinion, but he's never been involved with the West Side. He doesn't even come on the West Side," says Melvin Bailey, a local activist. "You'll hear a saying around here, and that is that a little bit of something is better than a lot of nothing." Denise Carter, 63, who lives in West Chicago and is disabled and retired...
...third-floor office suite in downtown Washington, Wal-Mart staff members are planning a public-opinion counteroffensive. The retailer, once focused only on keeping its shelves stocked and its prices low, is doubling the size of its Washington lobbying operation. It is touting its charitable deeds, backed by a national advertising campaign and a website called walmartfacts.com Why? Because across town, a group of twentysomething activists working for a union-backed organization called Wake-Up Wal-Mart is preparing attacks on the corporate giant's reputation. In the group's office, littered with handwritten signs like THEY PROFIT...