Word: argument
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...according to Professor of Law Janet Halley, FAIR’s argument could conceivably undermine, for example, the high court’s 1983 decision in Bob Jones University v. U.S., which held that the federal government could deny tax-exempt status to a South Carolina college that prohibits interracial dating...
Halley said “it’s a risk, not a certainty,” that a conservative judge would construe FAIR’s argument to undermine federal antidiscrimination mandates...
...professors’ brief took no position on FAIR’s argument that the Solomon Amendment breaches law schools’ free-speech rights. Instead, the professors argued that the government has unlawfully given the military a “unique privilege” to disregard any school policies that hinder its recruiting efforts...
...Western values should be deprivileged because of their worldwide diffusion. From this point of view, studying the West is really about understanding the basis of a global culture that many feel is emerging. The West won, and so a firm grounding in its culture and values is necessary. This argument, however, can be strung too far. Its one thing for someone to say that the Western tradition is responsible for the primacy today of principles like democracy, liberty, and freedom. Its another to make a normative judgment and say that these principles are somehow better than other cultures values...
...that without the cap, illicit money could enter the local industry. "Would you want funds that have terrorist linkages to enter the media?" asks M.J. Akbar, one of India's most respected journalists and editor in chief of the Asian Age newspaper. Critics don't think much of that argument. Many feel that the real reason the cap stays at 26% is that India's powerful newspaper barons want it that way. "Entrenched monopoly newspaper houses have been making this allegation as a way to keep out potential competition," says Ansari...