Word: argument
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...intentioned Catholic students. But I was wrong. The kids handing out fliers had been members of True Love Revolution (TLR)—Harvard’s newest pro-abstinence group, which provides a non-religious rationale for waiting until marriage. I was eager to see if a secular argument could be as compelling as threats of eternal hell-fire, which, even if they’ve not convinced me to keep my belt tied, have always made me feel, at the very least, temporarily slutty...
...dispatched to Holmes Hall to a report of a noise complaint. Upon arrival the officers were informed that another call was made regarding the same location reporting a fight in progress. The officers heard loud shouting coming from the room. The officers observed two individuals engaged in a heated argument. The officers asked the individuals several times to stop yelling. One individual continued to yell after repeated instruction to lower their voice by the officers and other occupants of the building. David Maybury-Lewis, 22, was placed under arrest for disorderly conduct...
...foreigners incarcerated inside the U.S. have the right under most circumstances to challenge their detention before a judge. But the Justice Department has argued that foreign "enemy combatants" held outside the U.S. do not enjoy this constitutional protection, even though the Guantanamo base is under full U.S. control - an argument the court accepted...
...This all goes back to Vietnam, of course. There were some Vietnam-era antiwar protesters - few - who disparaged the troops along with the war. (A lively debate continues about whether any returning American soldiers were actually spat upon.) Vietnam also saw the first appearance of the ridiculous argument that we couldn't stop the war until our POWs were freed - as if stopping the war wasn't the quickest way to free them. This, too, fed a myth that opposition to a war was somehow a betrayal of the soldiers. Ultimately, in the case of Vietnam, the antiwar movement included...
...imported workers suffering inhumane treatment include inadequate wages, verbal and physical assault, even rape. Last month, leaders of the Association of South-East Asian Nations, meeting in the Philippines, also took similar steps to regulate and aid the region's millions of migrant workers. According to Manila's argument, workers accredited with specific skills would not be vulnerable to such attacks. They have also limited the training and licensing fees to new applicants for domestic jobs. Labor organizers argue that it is these young workers who can least afford the new fees...