Word: argument
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...strengths as art, politics and soap opera, Standard Operating Procedure will reach only the art-house audience--a small fraction of the Harold & Kumar crowd. Yet Morris' argument is pure populist Hollywood. He says the grunts were the little guys who took the fall while the brass got off free. Harold & Kumar, oddly, believes our boys can be saved by a higher power: the President of the United States...
...maintaining the clause that abortion should remain rare, and thus placing a cloud of moral doubt over the procedure, pro-choice Americans should view abortion as morally acceptable. This is the only way to maintain consistency between the morality and legality of abortion. Abraham Lincoln made this same argument when he responded to Stephen Douglas in their famous debates. Douglas supported federal neutrality on the slavery issue, while claiming to be personally ambivalent on whether slavery was right or wrong, which Lincoln called an untenable moral position. Lincoln argued that it was only reasonable for the federal government to remain...
...face of detractors like Hoffmann—who said at this month’s Faculty meeting that he had seen signs of professors “not just constrained but pushed aside by the professional administrators”—and others, the argument for further administrative hires is the increasing size and complexity of the Faculty...
...from running away with votes in upscale suburban counties like Bucks and Montgomery. The victory gives her one last chance to convince donors to invest in her cause - a cause that even with the victory is in dire need of new funding. And it provides more ammunition for the argument she and her supporters have been pressing with the superdelegates who will ultimately put one of the candidates over the top - that she is better positioned than Obama to win in November...
...very convinced that the Greeks had it right with polytheism,” Cox said. “Year after year, this would come up,” he said. “Krister was always very wry and always reflecting humorously the argument about the need for polytheism...It was really quite understanding of him to do it that way—not to become involved in a heated debate, but to accept this guy for what he was.” This conciliatory nature carried over to his scholarship, Cox said. Stendahl eschewed displacement theology, which says that...