Word: argument
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...divergent from my own,” Aguero, who is also a Crimson editor, writes in an e-mail. “They politicize their events and activities so much that I have no desire or interest to go to anything because they always seem to be the same argument against the President, the government, the conservatives, the military, the Republicans, over and over again...
...toss back shots of hard liquor in their own rooms without supervision. Clearly, the fact that Yale’s decision to allow kegs didn’t lead to an increase in alcohol-related incidents this year (on the contrary, there was a sharp decline) only bolsters this argument. Hopefully Harvard, along with Captain Evans and his minions, will follow Yale’s lead next year at the Game and strive to create a safe tailgating atmosphere without impeding upon harmless student revelry by enacting absurd rules that are then strictly enforced. This year’s tailgate...
...looked at it purely in terms of what would help him.” Mesereau compared his treatment of racial issues in the Jackson case with another case he took, which involved a black city councillor from Compton, Calif. who was prosecuted following a corruption sting. He used racial arguments in that case, he said, because the evidence strongly indicated that race played a major role in the situation. He also attacked the media in its coverage of trials in general, complaining that the media routinely predicts verdicts incorrectly and has little regard for the actual issues of the trial...
...credit, the course must use a primary text that reflects “knowledge generally accepted in the scientific and educational communities and with which a student at the university level should be conversant.” Since the BARWS standards are clearly content-neutral, the only possible argument left is that the standards are being imposed in an unusually harsh manner against Christian courses. Calvary and the ACSI have made this argument as well, pointing to classes on Buddhism and Judaism that have been accepted for credit. Again, it is important to consider why the Calvary courses have been...
...other central tenets of Christianity.Three hundred and sixty-nine years later, in the midst of a national debate about God’s place in the classroom, even the University’s divinity faculty—the heirs to that theological mission—reject the latest argument for God’s role in creation: “intelligent design.”The national debate about intelligent design marks the latest front in the battle between proponents of teaching creationism and evolution in public schools. The century-old debate, which reached a pinnacle in the media with...