Word: argument
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...that modest amount, almost $5 was actually for consultants from the donor countries, more than $3 was for emergency aid, about $4 went for servicing Africa's debts and $5 was for debt-relief operations. The rest, about $12, went to Africa. Since the "money down the drain" argument is heard most frequently in the U.S., it's worth looking at the same calculations for U.S. aid alone. In 2002, the U.S. gave $3 per sub-Saharan African. Taking out the parts for U.S. consultants and technical cooperation, food and other emergency aid, administrative costs and debt relief...
...recently took steps toward self-improvement. Launched in two Sydney registries a year ago, the pilot Children's Cases Program aims to make cases quicker, cheaper, less formal and less acrimonious. Speed is achieved by skirting the rules of evidence: there's little scope for legal objection or technical argument. Litigants make an opening statement, directly addressing the judge, who - perhaps eschewing the wig and robe - keeps things moving with a word of advice here, a cautionary tale there. "The (eight) judges who've been involved in the CCP all embrace it very enthusiastically," says Chief Justice Bryant, who thinks...
...fair, President Summers’ advocates say that his bull-in-a-china-shop style is exactly what Harvard needs. The rhetoric of that argument is powerful, but the logic curious. After all, Summers has repeatedly sandbagged his own agenda by igniting pointless and distracting controversies. In other instances, such as the curricular review, President Summers’ insular leadership has probably made his work less successful rather than more. What, exactly, has Larry Summers done that Neil Rudenstine could not have also accomplished, and without the trauma...
...more I drive around this town, the more I realize how little sense it makes. The concrete spaghetti that crisscrosses the landscape is unbelievable. Every time I comment on this, someone explains: “Boston is a really old city.” I appreciate that. But this argument does not explain the horrible signage and inexplicable lack of lane lines in so many places. Also, the Big Dig was not inevitable. Urban planning? Anybody...
Mine is a world where identity is a fluid and invisible concept, ever-changing and unreliable, and thus where the only true qualifications a person has are the creativity of his (or her!) art and the strength of his or her argument. And lest you think I’m a dreamer, I’d like to point out that my world, or at least some facsimile of it, exists—and you enter it every time you turn on your computer and open your web browser or instant messaging client...