Word: argument
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...aloof animals, most of them the pale sand color of the desert dingo, lie in the sun in their high-fenced enclosure, snuffling and backing away when a stranger arrives. Having bred them for 20 years, Watson's home is full of photos and paintings of dingoes, but her argument for their protection is based less on sentiment than on her belief in their ecological status. "They're Australia's lion - and everyone knows that if you take out the top predator, things go bad," she says, as puppies roll in balls of golden fluff at her feet. "The outside...
...that Samuel Alito Jr. has been nominated to become an associate justice of the Supreme Court [Nov. 14], will someone please make the argument that the biggest reason he should not be confirmed is his gender? If the Supreme Court is to reflect the nation's demographics, at least half its members should be women. The court's overwhelming maleness isn't a fair representation of the majority of Americans. Surely the legal profession has at least one woman as competent as Alito...
...means, arguing that campus religious groups, which take their spiritual missions seriously, have no place on a campus dedicated to being as inclusive and pluralistic as possible. In reality, the fact that the AACF discriminates on the basis of religion is quite ancillary to our argument. We merely believe that any overt and rigid requirements alienating a portion of the student body should not be condoned by funding derived from the entire undergraduate population. After all, even the most culturally-specific groups on campus have members that do not fit the groups’ standard profiles. It is vital that...
...week. As always, McCain has been a model of stubborn independence and utter rectitude in matters of war and peace. He has led a full-throated effort to get the Bush Administration to abjure the use of torture. But he has also made the strongest and most detailed strategic argument-most notably in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute-for a renewed effort to succeed in Iraq. He believes the war against Islamist radicalism should be the highest national priority. He is one of the few remaining American politicians who want to send more troops to the war zone...
...while the authors have not received such acclaim without reason, their argument is ultimately flawed...