Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While it seems a bit absurd to us that the percentage of council money that goes to student groups and house committees must be debated and passed every year, this is clearly not the most important issue at stake. The argument over the referendum transcends the mere transfer of a couple of percentage points from one Undergraduate Council fund to another. At stake here is the students' voice in their government...
...drug-and-alcohol rehab, the wounded sit grimly on folding chairs, acknowledging the folly of their old life--their misadventures with alcohol, cocaine or other poisons. Then comes the afternoon that is set aside for atonement on the subject of marijuana. Now the chastened air gives way to argument. The house divides along generational lines. The oldest of the sinners (mostly age 50 or older) nod agreement with the official message: Yes, indeed--devil weed. The baby boomers, however, with their rich pharmaceutical histories, begin to snigger and squirm. "Give me a break!" rings out in the hall. The youngest...
...state's attorneys made no effort to use moral grounds in their argument...
...argument] wouldn't go away," says former vice president for finance Allen J. Proctor '74, whose main goal in Mass. Hall was to increase coordination among Harvard's disparate schools. "No matter what I did it wouldn't go away.... [It became] a belief system...
What does it mean when soldiers start treating their comrades-in-arms as if they were members of an enemy force? For one thing, and this is the bright side, it means we should be hearing a lot less of the sanctimonious argument that women don't belong in the military because they occupy a "protected" category. Not that that argument was ever anything more than patriarchal propaganda. When the Crusaders entered Jerusalem, for example, they slaughtered every resident--man, woman, child and pet--and waded, triumphantly, in the knee-deep blood. Nor have civilian women ever been entirely safe...