Word: argument
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...right, any movie, from Happy Feet to Hannibal Rising, can be a metaphor for Iraq. But we'll pass along the percolating argument that Leonidas is George W. Bush. In brief: Over the protests of the highest government (the Ephors or the U.N.), a commander-in-chief goes to war with an undersize army against a formidable Middle-Eastern power. All so he could say, as Leonidas does: "We rescued a world from mysticism and tyranny...
...college’s sponsorship changes the animal. The obvious argument in defense of such programming—that offended students don’t have to show up—misses the point. By organizing and sponsoring the talk, the FDO implicitly strays from its proper role of institutional tolerance for all lifestyles, endorsing choices that—though acceptable for many—may alienate large groups of students who don’t ascribe to such a lifestyle...
...people from all social and political contexts.Sen presents a cogent theory about the structure of modern society by positing that each person has many ways to define him- or herself—nationality, gender, religion, and ethnicity being among the almost infinite possibilities.The crux of Sen’s argument lies with the idea that “the importance of one identity need not obliterate the importance of others.” Sen writes that, instead, people must exercise discretion as to how these multiple identities will interact and which will be privileged in different settings.Though Sen examines contemporary...
...argues in favor of renewing the policies of containment first put forth by George Kennan in his historic “Long Telegram”—though as that might lead you to expect, the book often gets wallowed down in the past. The bulk of his argument is that the United States should have used this policy from the start of our present conflict, but Shapiro also puts forth a series of open solutions for the future that go beyond such common talking points as “better international relations?...
...Then there is the argument that Bush should boot his Vice President before he strikes again. It's an often forgotten fact that three of the past six Presidents either dumped or tried to dump their Vice Presidents: Richard Nixon tossed Spiro Agnew for Gerald Ford in 1973, Ford tossed Nelson Rockefeller and tapped Bob Dole as a running mate in the 1976 campaign, and Bush's father George Herbert Walker Bush let his top aides try to give the heave-ho to Vice President Dan Quayle when he was dragging down the G.O.P. ticket by three or four points...