Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While I would be the last person to argue that Harvard students have too low an opinion of our place in the world, I am disgusted by the argument, always present but growing in strength, that it is not our business to speak our minds about anything other than party hours, cable TV in the houses or the thickness of our toilet paper. We hold the power of our constant change, and as we flow through this school we must always be aware of the legacy we leave. We have the power every four years to completely define our existence...
...alter ego Harold Ickes could come back, and she added Mickey Kantor to the legal team, more for his political skills than his legal ones. Adviser Sid Blumenthal created a gigantic diagram inside his office outlining with circles and arrows the byzantine Republican conspiracy surrounding the tapes. A fierce argument raged over whether the First Couple, singly or together, should sit down for some big, cathartic confessional on the state of their union before Tuesday's State of the Union. But that idea was rejected, and by Saturday Hillary was fighting on several fronts at once...
...logic seems as tortured as a position from the Kama Sutra, but Clinton's potential argument (which was tested last week on TIME reporters by a high-level presidential confidant) comes down to two basic presidential passions, one still alleged, the other long proved. The alleged passion is for fellatio. According to a lawyer who has heard them, the Lewinsky tapes show that when it comes to intimacy, the infamously reckless Clinton is a play-it-safe puritan. Facetiously referring to herself as the future "special assistant to the President for b___ j___," Lewinsky reportedly told Linda Tripp that Clinton...
Certainly, some investors who live off dividends would cut and run. But there are powerful pro-investor arguments for dumping the dividend. One is that many investors reinvest dividends anyway and incur transaction costs to do so. But the main argument is that dividends are taxed as ordinary income, a marginal rate of up to 39.6%, while long-term stock gains are taxed as capital gains, a much lower rate of 20%. So it makes sense for companies to use their cash to buy back stock. Yes, a bear market could devour this strategy. But as long...
...President chided his visitor for meeting with the Rev. JERRY FALWELL and evangelical Christian groups at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington the day before coming to the White House. "Look, Bibi," said Clinton firmly. "You meet with Falwell [because] you think I am snubbing you. I could make the argument that you are gigging me." The television evangelist, who is anathema to Clinton, has distributed political videotapes that conspiratorially--and unconvincingly--hint, among other things, at the former Governor's complicity in an Arkansas killing. Moreover, Netanyahu asked Falwell and his conservative supporters to use their influence in Congress...