Word: skepticismã
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...just during election years. Khazei believes that citizens have the power to articulate and effectually fix the major social problems of our time. As The Boston Globe noted in its endorsement of Khazei, his ideas provide a welcome relief from “Reagan-era skepticism?? about the power of the government by thinking up unconventional ways to solve the nation’s biggest problems. Citizens have the real power to influence the nature of political initiatives in the coming years and choose the United States’s social agenda, but the extent of that influence...
...believe that the health of a society depends in large part on citizen’s intelligent skepticism??unwillingness to merely accept what is put before it as “gospel” (e.g., there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq because there must be, or because it is “obvious,” or because Saddam says so; ...) and demanding more and better evidence. But there ought to be an articulatable and reasoned distinction between such wise and helpful skepticism and obsessive and irrational denialism...
Halberstam, Woodward recalled, was endowed with a “raw skepticism?? that made him an effective investigative journalist. “He didn’t give a rat’s ass about the reaction that powerful people had about [what he reported]. In fact, he was glad if they were mad about it,” Woodward said...
Speakers also praised the concentration for cultivating an “enlightened skepticism?? in its students...
...heavily used, so I suspect if we created something that was another center of gravity that that would be a regarded as a plus.”But the idea that Harvard could transform the area into “another Harvard Square” is met with skepticism??and some distaste—from tenants accustomed to living in the shadow of the Harvard Stadium, located just across the street. Over the years, Charlesview residents watched as Harvard bought out business after business, shutting down large stores that were a valuable source of jobs...