Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hussein Kamel: On that occasion Uday was also drunk. President Saddam's valet was seated close to Uday at a party. The valet got into an argument with one of Uday's security guards. Uday hit the valet with a club, and the man died...
...argument for equal distribution of pain may be seriously misguided in this case, for several reasons. The first is that the BIA, which makes up 26% of the Interior Department's budget, would absorb 45% of the department's overall reductions. The second has to do with the Indians' abject destitution. Despite the arrival of gambling facilities on reservations, which has enriched a handful of tribes and made a few dozen more comfortable, a third of the country's 2 million Native Americans live below the poverty line. On the reservations, where per capita income averages $4,500, half...
...says the diary entry was wrong, that if Gramm said what was on the transcript, it was in jest. Still, in 1993 Packwood seemed quite serious when he erased the passage from the audiotape into which he had dictated it. In its place, he said, "There was the usual argument--I suppose a more polite word for it would be discussion--of how much money the national committee or senatorial committee was going to give the state party." How did the actual words come to light? Packwood kept a copy of the original, which he never altered...
ROBERT HUGHES' ATTACK ON CRITICS OF the NEA and NEH has an all too familiar ring. In its partisanship and preference for diatribe over argument, it resembles much of what today passes for scholarship and sometimes art. While a case can be made for preserving the endowments, Hughes' shallow, sneering polemic does it little justice. Indeed, the persistently ad hominem character of his essay only fortifies the impression of an intellectual culture too coarsened to be much worth supporting. Much more than the future of two federal agencies is at stake. STEPHEN H. BALCH, President National Association of Scholars Princeton...
...ARGUMENT OVER WHETHER USE OF the atom bombs, as opposed to a full-scale invasion of Japan, actually saved Japanese lives is completely irrelevant. After 3-1/2 years of war, President Truman's duty as Commander in Chief was very clear: to end the war quickly and save as many lives as possible . THOMAS E. TELL JR. Somerville, New Jersey Via America Online...