Word: argument
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Hooray for Bill Gates, I guess. Hooray (long ago) for Marconi's gypsy cart, the telegraph. The transcontinental railroad was a marvelous new cart (though you get an argument on that from remnant buffalo and Sioux). The interstate highway system, brightest cultural blossom of the Eisenhower years, was a wonder. So were the electric carving knife, the fax machine and the splendid neckties and haircuts of the 1970s...
...Another aspect of the defense strategy will be the "no-experience" argument: "This is the first time we've had a trial in Iraq for crimes against humanity," says Izzat. He and Dulaimi argue that they haven't received the training in international human rights law that the judges received in the U.S., Britain and Australia, so the proceedings cannot be fair. "We have no experience," says Izzat...
...snobbery is also evident at Harvard during debates about politics—remember the fake IQ charts that showed dumb people vote for Bush—or any sort of moral issue—witness what happens if some poor soul tries to cite the Bible in an any argument over anything...
...Perhaps Australia's urban workers are much like their farmer cousins: when the going is good they are all for the market, but when it's tough they expect to be propped up by institutional benevolence. Of course, there's a powerful argument for sticking with an adaptable system that has served Australia so well - and that has evolved a long way since Justice Higgins' 1907 Harvester judgment on the basic needs, and appropriate minimum wage, of an unskilled male laborer. Nor does the case for radical change seem irresistible when Australia's recent history is compared with that...
This was hardly a novel argument, and yet it was rather unsettling that a bright and ambitious young woman should say it and, by all appearances, genuinely believe it. After all, haven’t we—all of us at Harvard, and Yale, and other such places—spent the past 20 years of our lives mastering the art of having our cake and eating it too? Isn’t that how we got here in the first place—by finding that elusive balance between schoolwork and sleep, between dozens of extracurricular initiatives...