Word: opinionizing
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...cause for concern as well as celebration. The Court chose not to grant a marriage license to Hillary and Julie Goodridge, but instead gave the legislature 180 days “to take such action as it may deem appropriate in light of [the Court’s] opinion.” As gay and lesbian couples plan June weddings, opponents of same-sex marriage are concocting schemes to circumvent the Court’s ruling...
...marriage has to be broadened for it to meet the requirements of the state constitution.” Richard C. Van Nostrand, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, agrees, saying, “I just don’t see any room in the [Court’s] opinion for the interpretation that the Governor and Attorney General…espouse.” Others point out that if the Court had believed civil unions to be a viable alternative to marriage, they could have said so explicitly, as Vermont’s Supreme Court did in 1998. Goodridge reaffirms...
...opinion article entitled, “Summers in a Matrix” (Op-ed, Nov. 12), accuses University President Lawrence H. Summers of being either ”ignorant or deliberately misrepresenting facts” specific to U.S. foreign policy in the developing world “through several” rhetorical statements he made during the Harvard School of Public Health Forum: “Public Health Crisis in Africa, How May Harvard Help...
...conservative Republican simply cannot do right on the issue of HIV/AIDS—or at least that seems to be the opinion of the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC). In case you haven’t seen the HAC’s newest posters, they depict President George W. Bush in a fireman’s uniform, holding a severed hose in one hand and a pair of scissors in the other. The posters, which advertise today’s Science Center rally marking World AIDS Day, identify Bush as “Africa Action’s Most Wanted...
...think that the Supreme Court will affirm the 9th Circuit Court’s opinion but that the decision will probably be fairly close, like 5-4, and hearing several law professors discuss the case, I think that they hold the same opinion,” she says...