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...Opinion is not itself dangerous. Hidden opinion is, as is journalism slanted to reflect it. I've critiqued Obama's campaign videos favorably but also criticized the press for its swooning coverage of him. I don't know if that makes me fair. But you can judge for yourself, and you should...
...practice of giving letter grades to bonds to reflect their riskiness was pioneered by John Moody in 1909. But the industry took its current form only in the early 1970s. That's when Moody's and its competitors switched from selling research to investors to charging bond issuers to rate their goods. This approach wasn't unheard of: you have to advertise in Good Housekeeping to get the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. What made it problematic was that at about the same time, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) exalted the status of the ratings by writing them into...
...city, with the various artists updating and reshaping the myth of Babylon according to their own era's religious and philosophical concerns. During the second half of the 16th century, a time marked by the disintegration of Christianity and the beginning of religious wars, they used the tower to reflect a sense that their own world was descending into chaos, a salient theme of Cornelis Anthonisz's Destruction of the Tower of Babel (1547), in which the heavens breathe fire onto the collapsing structure. Peter Bruegel the Elder's The Little Tower of Babel (1563), portrays the myth more metaphysically...
...commissioned until after elections. (Brown inherited the job between elections, after Blair resigned.) A subsequent "significant swell of public support" for Brown triggered the request to Downing Street, says Lovett. That's a rare mismatch between Tussaud's own soundings and the wider world view, because opinion polls reflect no such swell - Labour, under Brown, has actually lost ground to the Tories...
...films like City of God that Latin American critics are calling la buena onda - a more consistent "groove" of first-rate moviemaking that showcases a distinctive Latin feel, a documentary-style realism splashed with artful devices like hopscotch flashbacks and colorfully detailed shots. "These are films that more genuinely reflect Latin American culture," says Diaz...