Word: argument
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...because one in 100 Americans has committed a criminal act that merits incarceration. It seems implausible that this enormous economic and social burden is justified. Although some argue that high rates of incarceration have led to lower crime rates, comparison with other industrialized nations reveals the fallacy of their argument. High rates of imprisonment have had little effect on the homicide rate in the United States, which remains four times higher than in Western Europe, where preventative measures such as gun control have more effectively reduced violent crime. Rates of other crimes of victimization in the United States...
Setting aside these social and academic justifications for this program, there remains one obvious and compelling argument for its implementation. Historically, Harvard College has scored remarkably poorly in student satisfaction polls. A prevailing mood of malaise in Cambridge hasn’t deterred new applicants, of course, and they’re still coming in droves. But if the food is lackluster, the housing sometimes derelict, and the faculty inaccessible, then at the very least we should come home to sleep on something wider than a plank...
...misconception may prove to be the bitterest pill to swallow. Though proponents of the “overmedication” argument may believe that they have their countrymen’s best interests in mind, their ignorant and often plainly false pronouncements may only serve to dissuade an already under-reached population from seeking the treatment they need. After all, while there’s no such thing as a happy pill, there is such thing as a loud and uninformed...
...indicative of how she’s viewed there.” Many of Greenhouse’s devotees cited the clarity and accessibility of her accounts of court proceedings and decisions as the key to her influence. “I think her reports of oral argument have been better than any accounts of oral argument that I’ve ever seen,” said Harvard law professor Richard H. Fallon.Greenhouse even educated professors, Tribe said.“There’s no one and I literally mean no one—even as a senior...
...rival party run by Shi'ite strongman Moqtada al-Sadr, who leads the contentious, trigger-happy Mahdi Army. Abdul-Medhi said that the Provincial Powers law contravened the constitutional right of voters of each province to elect their own governor (a sort of states rights versus federal powers argument, in American constitutional parlance...