Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argument for the center is straightforward: a multicultural student center would enhance interaction between Harvard's ethnic organizations while facilitating the dissemination of cultural awareness to the Harvard community at large. As a letter signed by more than fifteen leaders of cultural organizations and over 400 Harvard affiliates in late Oct. 1995, summed up: the creation of a multicultural student center would serve to "reaffirm Harvard's commitment to a diverse and inclusive community...
...Rand's vision of man as a rational, productive, heroic being were compatible with the conservative vision of a wretched sinner who will sacrifice himself for the needy willingly if the government will just let him. Objectivists are caricatured as blind followers, as if being convinced by a rational argument were equivalent to obeying some authority's dogma. Ayn Rand's admirers are smeared as "philosophically challenged" by a detractor who invokes Nietzsche and Sartre as historical advocates of reason--a howler which would bring swift retribution in any first-year philosophy class. None of these critics seems to feel...
Michael W. Linse '97 switched sections after he got into a political argument with...
...second prong of Jones' defense is the argument that only skilled terrorists could have made the bomb, not two drifters like McVeigh and Nichols. Jones and a team of investigators traveled to Belfast to speak with experts about ammonium nitrate bombs. Says Jones: "I talked to a bunch of them, and they said to me, 'I'm not saying your man couldn't have done it. What I'm saying to you is that no one else has ever done...
...biggest problem it has to deal with. Last week's State Department report also points to "some positive developments": Bonn has decided not to put Scientology under federal surveillance and concluded there is no evidence that the church has committed criminal acts. In spite of the public argument, both capitals think they can quietly agree to disagree on the issue--if the Scientologists will let them...