Word: slants
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Silvio Berlusconi's critics used to worry about what he might do once in office: slant media coverage, rewrite laws to favor his own business and legal interests, embarrass Italy with gaffes on the world stage. Many of those fears, though perhaps not the worst of them, were realized in the media mogul's last term in office, from 2001 to 2006. But now that Berlusconi has swept back to his third term as Prime Minister with an impressive victory over former Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, Italians are more concerned about what he might not do. Italy faces difficult public...
...While most of the nation’s top universities—including Harvard—still slant their curricula heavily toward the liberal arts, the effect is that many students spend their college days reading about everything from dinosaurs to Descartes, but then leave Cambridge for jobs completely unrelated to their course work. This dichotomy of the education and subsequent lives of Harvard students begs the question: amid the growing emphasis on professional preparation, just how relevant are the liberal arts to the lives of undergraduates...
...White House and ratified by the Senate. Over the last few years, allegations have arisen that PBS is being forced to toe a more conservative line by a Republican-dominated board that provides about $30 million in funding each year. But such pulling of purse strings to slant coverage undermines the ability of news outlets to function as an independent watchdog of those in power...
...Cambridge too, the program seemed like a good fit, reflecting the city’s artistic culture and liberal political slant, according to Weeks...
...This libertarian slant in traditional politics among the college generation seems to have influenced both liberals and conservatives, and Harvard seems to be no exception. In a Crimson poll of 188 Harvard undergraduates conducted in all the river dining halls and in Annenberg, 30 students identified themselves as libertarians, as opposed to 15 Republicans and 143 Democrats...