Word: argument
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...handing over the requested materials, Pearlstine and Time Inc. made the argument that there was now no need for Cooper to testify because Cooper's files contain at least some of the information Fitzgerald has been seeking. In the interim, Cooper and Miller have asked Judge Thomas F. Hogan to sentence them, if it comes to that, to home confinement or, barring that, to federal prison camps, as opposed to maximum-security prisons or the notorious Washington jails...
Thomas’ argument is that since the late 1970s the Harvard Law School (HLS) campus has been taken over by far-left “Crits,” or followers of the Critical Legal Studies school of thought. As “postmodernism [applied] to law,” Critical Legal Studies aims to deconstruct the biases inherent in the legal system...
...defense indicated its central argument will be that Zhu and Kimbara did nothing out of the ordinary...
Bennett's book is only one side of a sharp argument over Lincoln and race, but its success served as a sharp reminder that--just as in all previous times--modern America will insist on seeing Lincoln on its own terms. Consider C.A. Tripp and his argument that Lincoln was gay. His book The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln begins with the fact that Lincoln during his late 20s and early 30s shared a bed with a young man named Joshua Speed. As President, Lincoln may also have shared his bed with a captain of his guard unit in Washington...
...threat of retaliation is immoral and a "defense that really defends" is benevolent, an eerie echo of Kosygin's rebuttal to McNamara at Glassboro. Proponents of the Strategic Defense Initiative charge that the Soviet offensive buildup proves that the U.S.S.R. never really accepted the logic of McNamara's argument and has violated the spirit (as well as the letter) of the SALT agreements...