Word: argument
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...take particular exception to the argument for “safe space”—the term implies that there is something dangerous about Harvard at large, which is false. Harvard should be, and is, committed to keeping all of its students “safe,” and a call for “safe space” has lately become little more than a buzz word with, thankfully, diminishing rhetorical impact. Women’s center advocates would better serve their cause by stressing the one legitimate role that the space could play...
...lawyer who drafted the brief, John C. Eastman, acknowledged in a phone interview yesterday that his argument is not likely to draw the support of a majority of the justices. But Eastman, who clerked for Thomas in the 1996-1997 term, said that he will consider his effort a success if one of the justices—most likely Thomas—recognizes the brief’s argument...
Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Richard H. Fallon said that Eastman’s brief presents “an argument with no foundation whatsoever in the decisions of the Supreme Court, going back to the 1930s.” But, Fallon said, the prospect of Thomas including the brief’s argument in a concurring opinion lies “entirely within the realm of possibility...
...badness. They did a cover article on me once in the Hollywood Reporter about two years ago, the entire thrust of which was that I was the person who sold the most things to Hollywood without anything getting made, which at the time I suspect was a completely specious argument anyway...
Halley said “there are ways that you can make the distinction” between the anti-Solomon Amendment argument and the Bob Jones case. But, she added, “The danger is that the court might...