Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President asks us to forgive him. He speaks to the nation with tears in his eyes, admitting that he has caused pain to his family and to the American people. Yet at the same time, he sends his lawyers into both the legal and political arenas with an argument so tenuous and so precise in their hair-splitting that he draws criticism even from the Democratic leadership in Congress...
...grouping do not pan out in practice. Robert Slavin, an educational researcher at Johns Hopkins University, has found that high and middle achievers do just as well in "heterogeneous" classrooms as they do in classes populated by kids just like them. And low achievers do better. Says Slavin: "My argument is, Why would you continue grouping students if it doesn't seem to benefit anybody?" One answer: parents of motivated students tend to be pretty motivated and skilled at persuading school boards to sustain classes that provide something special for their children. In an era in which gaining admission...
Deborah Tannen, Georgetown professor of linguistics and author, most recently, of The Argument Culture, was asked by NOTEBOOK's Tam Gray to help us understand Bill Clinton's approach to apologizing...
...drugs. A new CNN/Gallup poll reports that Clinton's job approval ratings remain at 60 percent. But as TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty points out, Clinton malcontents -- notably disaffected Democrats -- could quickly turn that very separation between Clinton's peccadilloes and his policies into an argument for his resignation. "They could argue that resigning would be the best thing for the policies that Clinton says he cares so much about," Tumulty speculates. "Surely, there could be no better steward for them than Al Gore, and Clinton's continuing troubles may merely guarantee that Congress never even gets around...
...course, whenever you talk about screening sexually active teenagers these days, you're bound to get an argument. Which is why I'm impressed by some schools in New Orleans that have asked for, and received, parental permission to test nearly all their students, regardless of what they say about their sexual experience. That way, doctors and nurses can focus on treating sick kids, ensuring that one day, preferably when they're older and married, they can still have children...