Word: argument
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...tech startups - the so-called Web 2.0 companies - changing the competitive landscape for Google? Web 2.0 is a marketing term, and it's not a term that I use, but the underlying rationale technologically is correct, which is why it's really happening. The basic argument is, if you think about it: it would be better for you to have all the data and all the applications that you use on a server somewhere, and then whatever computer or device you're near you would be able to use. Let's say you have...
...ability of the great democracies to work together to confront some of the most pressing issues facing the world? It's easy to dismiss Europe's current, curdled view of things American as something that will change over time. After all, it has done so before. Sure, the argument goes, the Bush Administration has alienated Europe - over Iraq and Guantánamo and global warming, to name but three salient issues - but so did Dwight Eisenhower when he pulled the plug on the British-French-Israeli invasion of Suez, Lyndon Johnson with the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan when he deployed...
...stop trying to annihilate each other and the European Union to take root and prosper; their grandparents might remember G.I.s bearing nylons and Hershey bars. I have seen the power of such sentiments myself. When I was a high school exchange student in 1972, I had a rollicking argument with a train compartment full of East German teenagers about "imperialist America." But when I gave one of the girls a John F. Kennedy half-dollar, she broke into tears and gave me a big kiss. How many European teenagers today would feel that way about any American President? For Europeans...
...suspicion is warranted, the conclusion we must draw about the difference between 19th and 20th century thought confirms my prearranged opinion about it, which is as much confirmation as any rational argument can hope for in our world — namely, that while the 19th century suffered under the explicit and wholly reprehensible conflation of the good with the profitable, the confusion the 20th suffers from is so total that it cannot be reprehensible but only pitiable...
...Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education Howard E. Gardner ’65 wrote in an e-mail yesterday that Etchemendy’s argument, while logical, “misses the point...