Word: argument
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...people ignored Coulter, she would go away. It's impossible to have an argument without both sides participating. It becomes clear after a while that Coulter's goal is not to bash liberals and spread conservatism. It's to advance the cult of Coulter. She is simply a self-promoter in our culture of celebrity...
...four of the members went to Harvard (Guvench, guitarist Mike Palmer ’03, Andy Eggers ’99), the Great Unknowns have refrained from making any Ivy League references in their promotional literature, partly because, as Guvench mentioned, “we could see the argument against that” type of presentation for their target audience...
While such statements make Lithgow sound like he was a pretentious theater kid, he makes a compelling and typically Harvardian argument for the merits of his attitude. He says theater at Harvard “was pretty cliquey. There were rival camps; there was ferocious competition for slots. That’s the terrain, but also, we were cutting our teeth. You learn a lot more from that...
...smart politico will tell you: the fundamental reason Democrats lost in 2004 is because the party seemed wobbly on national security issues—particularly Iraq. Rather than choose a) the confident anti-war argument that acting in Iraq would divert resources from America’s real enemies, or b) the confident pro-war argument that acting in Iraq would remove a threat and plant democracy in the world’s most dangerous neighborhood, we liberals appeared to choose c) the squeamish hope that post-Saddam Iraq would collapse, and Bush would get embarrassed...
...popular explanation that women simply prefer small classes to large classes. This theory states that the natural sciences mostly have large, impersonal introductory courses and that women get turned off by this and flock to concentrations where every other class is a four-person tutorial. I would find this argument compelling, except that men do not like large classes either. I did a quick poll of several male friends and, with the exception of one senior who favors large classes on the grounds that they are “easier to skip,” the testosterone junkies unanimously preferred...