Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unquestionably, the students of Harvard may maintain that they have no right to indicate in one way or another how one of the University's legal scholars shall sell his wares in the commercial, public arena. Advocates of the First Amendment may well rest on this argument, which is not to be taken lightly. But students should not feel prevented from speaking out about this involvement...
...Western press should adopt the "quite ridiculous" habit of calling a theft a theft, but that's what it was, and no mealiness of the mouth can change it. Piotrovski insists in his catalog preface that the show "is not being held to make a point in an argument but is rather an event in the life of the arts." Well and good, but the argument will survive the show and go on for years longer...
...profile of a lone gunman: socially awkward, emotionally volatile, paranoid and somewhat delusional-judging from his rambling statement to police after his arrest in December. But Salvi's lawyers will go to court in the next month and argue that he is unfit to stand trial. To bolster the argument, they intend to portray him as a mentally unstable young misfit pushed over the edge by the exhortations of radical antiabortionists. Phone numbers and literature found in Salvi's possession indicate that he knew-or knew of-the militants who believe that killing doctors is justified to save unborn babies...
...important swing voters abhor. If the contract's tax cuts overtly favor corporations and the wealthy, says G.O.P. Representative Steve Schiff of New Mexico, "it will make us a sitting duck for those who argue that our party has capitulated to our [lobbying] allies." Democrats are already making the argument. "The Republicans are too close to business interests," charges Charles Schumer of New York. "That is their Achilles' heel...
...Disabilities Act when he turned away one patient who had AIDS and another who was HIV-positive, a federal judge has ruled. In the first court decision on such a civil lawsuit filed by the Justice Department, District Judge Stanwood Duval in New Orleans rejected dentist Drew Morvant's argument that the patients could have infected him or his staff. The judge is slated to decide damages in May. The government pressed a similar case in Texas, where an HIV-infected man got $100,000 from a dentist in an out of court settlement. "It's an uncertain area...