Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angle: The conventional wisdom, as I have received it, is that just as consulting firms target the nation's elite colleges, so sperm banks are willing to fork over exorbitantly large sums of money to tomorrow's leaders. In a fortuitous marriage of Darwinian and free-market pressures, the argument continues, Harvard semen is a hot commodity: Why make your child with any old sperm, the advertising jingle might go, when, for just a bit more, you can conceive a Harvard baby...
...going to get top marks? Microsoft's argument was basically a reprise of their show-and-tell in the courtroom last week: remove Internet Explorer from Windows 95, they warned, and you get a crippled PC. The government's paper, if nothing else, was more passionate: "Microsoft construed the preliminary injunction to require what it knew would be a senseless result," it wrote. The software firm has not exactly been teacher's pet in this trial, and the government's simple argument ? that all they had to do to comply was run the "Add/Remove" program ? could well land...
...argument is a cunning one, and when the dispute reached the court last month, the judge saw things the petitioners' way: the wolves would have to go. Not surprisingly, the reaction has been explosive. "The decision defies common sense," fumes Thomas France, senior counsel of the National Wildlife Federation. "It was an order to take 10 steps backward...
...entire argument over defense strategy begs the question of what might actually work in this case. One long shot is the "necessity" defense. "It means you are at times in the law entitled to commit a lesser evil to avoid a greater evil," says Stanford law professor George Fisher: in other words, the alleged Unabomber felt he was forced to bomb America in order to save it. But the chances of being allowed to make such a claim are slim. Says Fisher: "Obviously the necessity defense is never going to be allowed to be used as an excuse for terrorism...
...Haven people once needed just to keep alive, and who could hunt quail for pleasure rather than the desperate need to meet a wife and eight children at table without shame." Can this intense imaginative sympathy really come from an author who is merely intent on making a feminist argument...