Word: skepticism
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...political stars like Park Geun Hye, daughter of former autocrat Park Chung Hee might engineer a new party to fight the election. If South Korea's Prince Charming does enter the fray, the outsider aura he's enjoying now could burn off. And, as one MDP insider and Chung skeptic puts it: "The Korean public can distinguish between sports and politics." But stretching out in his seat on the plane to Cheju, Chung already sounds like he's on the stump, talking about improving standards of living, tackling what he sees as a "crisis of leadership in Korean politics...
...Hollywood skeptic, appraising Fred for the first time, the Astaires' stage stardom could be attributed to snob appeal and second-balcony myopia. The fuss must have been about Adele. Look at her brother. In long shot Fred's body photographed small, fragile, bewildered. In close-up he looked - and, in moments of earthbound repose, acted - like Stan Laurel. Thus the famous pronouncement on Astaire's first screen test: "Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little." But oh, how he danced! That was evident from his second film, "Flying Down to Rio" (1933), when he was paired...
Despite all Kaptchuk’s success and his hopes about alternative medicine’s potential, Kaptchuk acknowledges that the future of his field is an uncertain one. “I’m a skeptic even though I’m a practitioner,” he says. “I’m not sure these therapies are most effective. They may work better on the fringe...
...later. And I must admit that I was never cured of anything (though I knew people who were) and that I never even fell over under the weight of Spirit (though my parents did, even before they believed). So there are loose threads in this miraculous tapestry for a skeptic to tug at, if she chose...
...dispel early fears that the social benefit from higher wages would be wiped out by job cutbacks among businesses subject to the living-wage laws. Last month a study of 36 cities with living-wage laws--conducted by David Neumark, a Michigan State University economics professor and an early skeptic of such laws--found that the slight job losses caused by the higher wages are more than offset by the decrease in poverty among working families. "The impact on businesses and governments is very small," says Robert Pollin, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "If there...