Word: argument
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...have died out a half-million or so years ago-which the critics lambasted, is now looking less likely. But their new idea is even more audacious: the hobbits, they suggest, may come directly from the Australopithecus family, which went extinct something like 2 million years ago. Their detailed argument for this notion has yet to be published, and critics are still very cautious even about embracing the idea that the hobbits represent a new species at all. But while he agrees that more evidence is needed, Daniel Lieberman, a Harvard paleontologist who composed a commentary on the new discovery...
...desire for more social and meeting space has long been old news on this campus. However, this old argument has gained new intensity as more space has been lost to the College. As recently as 10 years ago there was more available meeting space per group, post-9 p.m. fun to be had in the Square, and a building called the Freshman Union. The union, now the Barker Center, used to serve as a student center for the freshman class. Freshmen ate their meals there, held meetings, and even got to watch cable television starting in 1993. Concentration fairs...
...cause. Shortly after that, an explosive device detonated close to the crew, killing three people not associated with the film. Abu-Assad withdrew, finishing the project in his native city of Nazareth. When Abu-Assad showed the film to a Palestinian audience in Ramallah in April, a fierce argument raged about its message; some said it portrayed an ugly Palestinian face to Westerners, while others were struck by its astute portrayal of West Bank life. Abu-Assad says the sharply divided opinions pleased him, confirming that he had avoided making a predictable propaganda film. "I did not make what they...
...from a Scalia-esque fiery debate over judicial philosophy during the confirmation process. Perhaps Miers has a well thought out constructionist judicial philosophy; perhaps she is a staunch conservative. This, however, isn’t actually important. The issue is that she was nominated specifically to avoid an ideological argument, which is a sign of how Bush’s conservatism doesn’t have the courage of its convictions...
...wade through hell and high water for the Bolton nomination because of personal friendship (and, one suspects, just to spite the rest of the world) but has flinched from every actual ideological conflict. Bush has gone five years without casting a veto and caved on almost every domestic argument (excepting tax cuts) from Social Security to Medicaid reform—which metamorphosed from a serious reform empowering individuals to just another entitlement program. He hasn’t seen a spending bill or an expansion of Federal powers that he didn’t like. Cravenly preferring submarine judicial nominees...