Word: argument
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...simply paying these managers “fair market value,” based upon the compensation reportedly earned by leading private hedge fund managers. But should the university’s endowment be treated like private fortunes or treated as a public trust? No one should accept the argument that it is necessary to pay anybody $25 million to $35 million per year as an incentive, or reward, for giving best efforts to Harvard, whether as a money manager, dean of students, professor of biology, cafeteria worker, security guard or anything else...
Hollings: I'm a trial lawyer. I made enough money in 20 years as a trial lawyer to afford [working in] this Senate. And I was enthused because, good God, you had a better class of life here. You could make the final argument to the jury and then go in the jury room and vote. The Senate was just hunky-dory. I was just tickled to death. And I'm not sad that I'm not making all that money because I've been enriched otherwise. I'm better stimulated. And all my other trial-lawyer friends are either...
...next week, and in the U.S., Italy and Germany next spring. Nossiter is working his material into a 10-hour television series on the same topic, to be released sometime next summer. Far from a tiresome screed about the perils of globalization, Mondovino makes its argument by portraying the outsized personalities Nossiter finds across the spectrum of the wine-making world. We hear the emphatic musings of Languedoc vintner Aimé Guibert, who calls wine "mankind's quasi-religious relationship with the natural elements." Hubert de Montille, a hilariously irascible winemaker from Burgundy, points out that "where there are vines...
...been argued that the new SAT will remove the advantage that wealthy students have traditionally had on the test, outperforming their poorer counterparts. However, this argument clearly overlooks the necessary factors to scoring well on an essay on a standardized test. The weight of cultural gaps as well as monetary ones will be increased by the addition of the essay because the ability of one to write a high-scoring essay will be sorely hindered by language barriers and cultural barriers. The margin for error increases exponentially...
Chinese oil company, that company then invests in Sudan, and therefore Harvard is responsible for helping finance the genocide in Sudan and is morally obliged to stop. They apply this principle to a less extreme degree, but their argument nevertheless relies on the same principles, and therefore holds just as little water...