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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Mike Hopkins ? SEATTLE (AP) â In the view of  Mike Hopkins    his  first season as the head coach at Washington will be filled basically with freshmen.
That's not to be taken in the literal sense. What  Hopkins  means is that with a new coaching staff  a new style and new expectations  even the players that are returning from last year are just like the incoming freshmen.
"I think the biggest thing is we've focused on the day-to-day  how we're going to do the process of getting better "  Hopkins  said. "That's the standard of excellence every day and everybody here is learning a new system. A lot of the players end up being freshmen again because they're learning  from our zone to our press to how we're going to play offensively  defensively. I think they've made the transition pretty smooth."
After spending 22 seasons as an assistant at Syracuse and being the presumptive replacement for Jim Boeheim when he retired   Hopkins  left behind everything  he  knew in upstate New York and accepted the job of rebuilding the Washington program after the Huskies fired Lorenzo Romar following 15 seasons.
 Hopkins  also had to recruit those who slogged through a 9-22 record a season ago to keep them around. A number considered leaving. Most  including starters David Crisp  Noah Dickerson and Matisse Thybulle  all ended up staying with the chance to create the new foundation for the next chapter at Washington.
"The biggest concern with a new coach is the buy-in there "  Hopkins  said. "I think from the beginning our staff did a great job of really connecting with the kids  working with them  developing them  getting them to stay  that was our first priority. I'm very happy with the guys."
IN THE ZONE: Yes  Washington will play zone. Yes  it will be the same zone defense that  Hopkins  helped teach at Syracuse.
Defense was a major problem in the waning years of Romar's tenure. The Huskies' defense was more of a liability that an asset. How  Hopkins  is able to implement the zone will be important since the Huskies don't have a lot of size on the interior. A year ago  Washington allowed 81 points per game  11th in the conference.
"I know the benefits of it. The biggest thing I want to do is control tempo. So if you're fast  I can slow you down; if you're slow  I can speed you up  " Hopkins  said.
FINDING SCORING: One of  Hopkins ' first tasks will be finding enough scoring. Crisp is Washington's leading returning scorer at 13.8 points per game  while Dickerson averaged 12.5 points last season. But the Huskies don't have an obvious scorer on the roster that can carry the load or get points in crucial situations. In recent seasons  the Huskies have had Markelle Fultz  Andrew Andrews and C.J. Wilcox. Fultz averaged 23.2 points last season  while Andrews scored 20.9 per game the season before.
"You try and figure out how you're going to score 70 to 75 points per game and who is going to do it "  Hopkins  said. "That's been one of the processes."
DIFFICULT BEGINNING:  Hopkins  certainly isn't shying away from having a challenging schedule to begin  his  Washington tenure.

A: Positive
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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Silvio Berlusconi ? Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was attacked  injured in the face by a protester and hospitalized shortly after a political meeting in Milan on Sunday evening.
 Berlusconi was signing autographs when a man from the crowd threw at him a statuette representing the Milan Dome  making his nose and mouth deeply bleed  state-run television RAI reported.
 Under shock  the prime minister was then rushed into a car and driven away to a nearby hospital for first aid assistance. Upon reaching the hospital Berlusconi told a member of his staff that he was "feeling well."
 However  the prime minister's conditions are serious according to the doctor in charge of him. He has suffered a severe nose trauma  broken one of his teeth and injured his lower lip.
 The prime minister would spent the night at the hospital and be kept under medical control for 20 days  the doctor explained.
 The man hid among a small group of protesters who were shouting slogans and whistling at the prime minister. Then  unnoticed by the security  he threw the statuette at Berlusconi's face.
 According to people who spoke to Berlusconi  the prime minister said to be "very disappointed and afflicted by the attack  which is the result of all the poison" lately thrown at him.
 "This is the consequence of the political tensions of these days. While we were in the car going to the rally Berlusconi told me to be very worried and said he hoped nothing would happen " Bonaiuti recalled.
 "But unfortunately this time something very serious did occur " he said.
 Italy's political scene has been lately rocked by fierce contrasts between the opposition and the judiciary on one side  and Berlusconi and his center-right government on the other.
 The prime minister has repeatedly accused the "communist left" of conducting a personal fight against him.
 All Berlusconi's allies condemned the assault linking it to the on-going political tensions and hate campaign.

A: Neutral
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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Melanie Sloan ? Melanie Sloan  made  her  name as an ethics watchdog in DC  but more recently  she 's emerged as another prominent critic of the HR disaster that is the United States Congressâwith  her  own experience to boot. When  she  got a job on the Hill working for Congressman John Conyers in 1995   she 'd heard there was a lot of sexual harassment taking place there   she  recalled. Still  given that  she  was a respected lawyer at the timeâand joining his staff as a minority counsel to the House Judiciary Committeeâ she  thought it would be fine.
 She  was wrong. Although  Sloan  does not think  she  was sexually harassed   she  said  her  three years at that job were characterized by verbal abuse and punctuated with bizarre incidents  like one in which  she  walked into  her  boss's office and found him in his underwear. Without an HR department   she  struggled to figure out what  she  was supposed to do.
"I did everything I could "  she  told me. "I talked to my supervisor. I talked to [then] Minority Leader [Richard] Gephardt. Externally  I talked to a women's group and a reporter. I told the reporter what happened  and he called a woman colleague of mine to check my story. She told him I was mentally unstable  and even though I'd worked with this reporter before  he told me  'Well  maybe you are mentally unstable.'"
Reporters' attitudes are obviously changing; on November 22   Sloan  was the first person to go on the record with the Washington Post about Conyers's alleged misconduct toward staffers  which she said included verbal abuse in her case but appears to have centered on unwanted touching and requests for sexual acts in others. So are societal attitudes:  Sloan  said  she  recently heard from friends of  her 's from the 90sâone who worked on the Hill and another in a big DC law firmâwho shared stories of harassment for the first time. But it might take members of Congress longer to get it together than the average person who watches the Today show. The average age of congresspeople is 57; in the Senate specifically  it is 61.

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