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In the world today, any reasonable and widely shared opinion is the result of a long and complicated history of enlightenment culminating in liberal institutions that we should be proud of and teach our children to revere, instead of favouring the fantastic theory that a regard for civilised values somehow exacerbates a conspiracy against the wretched of the earth.

"There is no single, homogeneous Latino opinion," the Pew Hispanic Center reported in 2002.

But opinion writers — on the basis of little or no psychological training — cannot resist having their psycho-investigative fun with Truman and still other presidents, including Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson.

Every nascent strand of moderate Arab opinion, knowing full well that the future should not belong to fundamentalist religion, would be set back in bitter disappointment.

The truth is, faced with this struggle, on which our own fate hangs, a significant part of Western opinion is sitting back, if not half-hoping we fail, certainly replete with schadenfreude at the difficulty we find."

It is filled with revelatory analysis of such things as hitter performance ahead and behind the count, and is interspersed with countless opinions, most congenial in this quarter -- such as that inter-league play is a regrettable innovation and that Derek Lowe needs the occasional, if metaphorical, kick in the butt.

"But I can't give you my opinion, because the situation is very dangerous right now.

The Stones themselves loved his prickly refusal to compromise his own opinions or values, and his inability to suffer fools lightly.

I'm seeking a second opinion before notifying the police and hiring a lawyer.

These fevers affected nineteen/twentieths of the population, in the opinion of one contemporary observer, and carried away many of the most prominent people in the early history of the city.

Arab countries that have working relations with Israel will be pressured by public opinion to cool those ties.

They largely lack access to the most basic mechanisms that any society needs to assess such phenomena and formulate a coherent reply, even at the level of public opinion, let alone national policy -- mechanisms such as credible political parties, parliaments, civil-society groups, quality mass media, reflective research universities and independent research institutions.

The scrutiny will be especially intense in the state's American Indian community, where the outspoken and opinionated Republican launched a colorful and controversial political career by confronting leaders of the American Indian Movement in the early 1970s.

"I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the divine will," he told a group of ministers in September 1862.

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