Word: opinionizing
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...missed the point" about Sorenstam's effort to play with the guys. Singh flipped Chamblee the bird. "I really didn't take offense to it. I was just shocked by that sort of gesture," Chamblee says, "because in the end, I just thought it was a difference of opinion...
...Angeles, the Chicago Sun-Times' Roger Ebert) and magazines (TIME and Newsweek) reviewed the more ambitious soft-core movies in the 60s and then hard-core, when it was legally exhibited. Why? Because it was sufficiently dangerous, popular, newsworthy and, frequently, ambitious to warrant the interest of reviewers. The opinion of many of them, including me, was that there might be a meeting of pornography, which had quickly established a kind of artistic pedigree, and Hollywood, which was striding toward explicit sexuality. That was also the belief of Deep Throat's writer-director, Gerard Damiano, who said...
Thank you for addressing the issue of brain differences and women's performance in the fields of science and math. It should be obvious that we need to change the presumptuous opinion that girls are not interested in science and math. That prejudice still exists throughout the Western world, manifesting itself as girls and boys grow up and resulting in less interest in science among women. I had an unusual experience in that all but one of my math and science teachers from kindergarten through high school were women. They provided direct evidence to me that women could excel...
Interestingly, in all that has been written on this case, and all the fact-finding that has been done in six-plus years of litigation, it appears as if no one ever asked an institutional ethics committee for an opinion or for assistance in talking with the family. If that is the case, then those involved in this case missed a valuable opportunity. Ethics committees are interdisciplinary bodies of medical professionals, social workers, clergy, and sometimes lawyers. In part, they examine ethical questions and assist in mediating between family members and caregivers in cases of confusion or disagreement. A take...
...sure, the students of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) are a vital part of the Harvard community, and their voice in the controversy surrounding Summers is an important one to include. If done right, public opinion polls conducted occasionally could be effective as part of a multi-faceted approach to gauging student sentiment. But a poll of graduate students mimicking the measures voted on at a FAS meeting one week earlier—which itself was flawed at best— demonstrates a disconcerting thoughtlessness on the part...