Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Braunstein's credit, he spoke to me with the utmost sincerity and good intention, but I question his argument that the article's premise was a celebration of the fact that race didn't seem to matter in this instance. If The Crimson wanted to celebrate such an event, it could have done it in a much less ambiguous fashion. Nowhere in the article is it mentioned that in a racially divided society, this election represents a beacon of racial harmony. Here's a better lead of my own creation along those lines, "Despite the fact that in the United...
...love it if we could clone her," said James H. Rowe III '73, vice president for government, community and public affairs. "We're not going to have any argument with Secretary [Richard] Riley. He loves her as much...
...last Thursday's Globe, Barnicle lionized security guard (and Harvard graduate) George Baker '76 as his "new hero" and mocked a group of Harvard students whom Baker had treated rudely. I am one of those students, and I can attest that all of the key claims in Barnicle's argument are utterly false...
...lucky and foolish dorm-room confession by Graham's accomplice and girlfriend, Diane Zamora, nearly nine months later to bring about the arrest of this nefarious pair? The teenage couple knew precisely what they were doing. This is a blatant case of premeditated murder. If ever there was an argument in favor of capital punishment, this is it. TOM CARDELLO Mayfield Heights, Ohio Via E-mail...
Anyway, my response to their argument goes like so: Sometimes lectures are pointless, but sometimes they're useful--even within a single class. That is, professors have an uncanny ability to fade between the relevant and the irrelevant, so why should I not fade in and out as well...