Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...satire, though, is often indistinguishable from straight opinion and whatever it is, or claims to be, it is frequently laced with insensitive and offensive messages. Last Friday, his column in The Herald was simply laced with hate...
...opinion piece primarily about Harvard Real Estate in the September 29 Crimson has many errors and half-truths and is grossly unfair to Sally Zeckhauser. A few examples: there is no state or other official estimate predicting MATEP will cause any lung cancer deaths over 40 years because of nitrogen dioxide or, for that matter, any other emissions; HRE does not run the shuttle bus system; and HRE found a home in Holyoke Center for the Thomas More Bookstore when the store had to move...
They questioned whether Bork had the inclination or power to replace Cox with a strong successor who would pursue the truth. They said Leon Jaworski, Cox's successor, was named because the Nixon administration bowed to "a firestorm" of public opinion and congressional pressure...
...random poll of 15,000 people across the nation, conducted earlier this month, Dukakis recieved a 22 percent favorability rating. Fourteen percent had favorered Biden, said Jim D. Murphy, the head of Cambridge Reports, a national public opinion research center that did the poll for a local television station...
...invoked the First Amendment guarantee of free speech in ruling that calling someone a "sleaze bag" who "slimed up from the bayou" does not constitute slander. When Football Coach Darrel ("Mouse") Davis used those words to describe Sports Agent J. Harrison Henderson III, he was free to express his opinion, according to Judge Jim Carrigan. The judge dismissed a suit for at least $12 million in damages that Henderson had filed against Davis and two newspapers that printed the remark...