Word: argument
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...genuine. Without telling him, Mandoki dressed the actor’s older brother in fatigues and put him in the scene as Chava’s target. Expecting to see an extra, Carlos instead found his brother in his sights.According to producer Lawrence Bender, it took a heated argument with Mandoki to get Torres to discuss his reluctance to pick up a gun.Bender says, “Oscar said [to me], ‘I’ve felt ashamed all my life about it.’ Because these people killed his friends. He’s carried...
...exercise of Constitutional rights,” Greenfield told the packed room of nearly 100 people.Eastman, who filed a friend-of-the-court brief in July supporting the Solomon Amendment, called the dispute an issue of “fundamental moral principle.” He countered the arguments of a friend-of-the-court brief filed by a group of 40 HLS professors, calling their argument against the Solomon Amendment “too clever by half.” He added that a “compelling argument” could be made that the government?...
...University of Illinois’ board of trustees is currently trying to resolve issues related to the Chief Illiniwek tradition. But Kaufman, whose disapproval is shared by the National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People and the American Psychological Association, said he does not see a valid argument for maintaining the Native American references. “Those people who think that [our] position is wrong, we listen to them, and they offer the same arguments that have impeded social, economic and judicial progress in the country,” Kaufman said. “Those arguments don?...
...difference in monetary worth between Harvard’s lowest-paid workers and other members of the community (and there surely will), so too will there exist a rift in the human worth accorded to members of each of those two groups.The notion is more intuitive than the formal argument makes it seem: when a Harvard student knows that the University has allocated a greater portion of his or her fees to pay the wage of a janitor (at a higher level than the laws of supply and demand would require), a condescending strain of sympathy subtly yet naturally replaces...
...based outside, you’re screwed,” he says. “If there was [a student center], I’d go there more [than Adams].”However, supporters of the decentralized student center idea use the same evidence to validate their arguments. According to Kidd, the current pockets of renovation will “allow students to reclaim life in the houses.” She doesn’t see one large student center as a cure-all for House problems, and her partner in crime agrees.“I think...