Word: argument
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...suggest to him, however, that evil has no race. These “white oppressors,” as he calls them, were as evil as their black counterparts who committed atrocities on their victims. However, his keenness on picking up observations that suits his argument that blacks have an obsession with a “Blame the Whitey” attitude suggests that he only saw what he wanted to see in the festival...
...Chertoff suggested reporters were exaggerating. "If you talk to someone and you get a rumor or you get someone's anecdotal version of something," he said, "I think it's dangerous to extrapolate it to all over the place." Demonstrating the kind of tenacious dedication to a line of argument that made him a successful Mob prosecutor, Chertoff reprised the same theme last week in a briefing with House members on Capitol Hill, insisting that the federal response had been far better than advertised. In essence, he was telling politicians to believe the Administration rather than their own eyes. Some...
...resign and John Roberts become President? Nils J. Mikkelsen Plano, Texas, U.S. Atomic Anxiety Re your report on the anniversaryof the bombing of Hiroshima [Aug. 1]: Washington is continually concerned about the possession of nuclear arms by countries that do not have ideal political relationships with the U.S. Its argument that certain nations cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons is ironic, since the U.S. is the only country to date that has deliberately used atomic bombs against civilians. Iran and North Korea do not scare me. The U.S. does. Christina M. Gebbia Valencia, Spain The world would have seen another...
...after linking Roberts to abortion-clinic bombers. Some supporters discovered on closer examination that maybe he was a different species of conservative than they had thought, particularly when they learned he had moonlighted on behalf of a gay-rights group. Overall the very deliberate examination of his every argument and memo and decision has revealed a more complex character than initial reports promised. The 60,000 pages of documents from his early years as a hotshot Reagan Administration lawyer that have since been made public show an ambitious twentysomething with an attitude--sometimes cautious, always confident, occasionally acid, as when...
...Here is a classic tension: How much restraint should one branch of government show when it feels another is not showing enough? The Rehnquist Court holds the record for tossing out congressional statutes, often on the ground that Congress is muscling in on state turf. The argument rests on how one reads the Constitution's Commerce Clause, an omnibus notion that allows Congress to regulate interstate commerce but has frequently been used as an all-purpose regulatory vehicle. The high court has overturned a federal law that barred possession of a firearm within 1,000 ft. of a school...