Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third day of testimony, Lange reported that he had asked a technician to gather the evidence the day after the June 12 murders, but his orders were not carried out until July 3, after the crime scene had been unsealed and open to the public. Pressing his argument that police mishandled the investigation, Defense Attorney Johnnie Cochran suggested that curious sightseers could have contaminated the blood sample. Kato Kaelin, O.J.'s houseguest the night of the murders, is expected to testify Thursday...
...many, that kind of sympathy with the enemy could seem the worst kind of two-facedness or moral relativism: not so much turning the other cheek as sheer turncoatism. And by trying to see both sides of every argument, Greene contrived to make enemies on both sides of every fence: Catholics and agnostics, McCarthyites and communists, all found his conviction wanting. A would-be Christian who admits to putting people before principles gets accused of sentimentality by skeptics and of hypocrisy by believers. Those issues found their focus in Greene's unshakable loyalty to his old boss in British intelligence...
...compensation for well-documented prior discrimination. But the court allowed the Federal Government greater leeway, in part because, under the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress has broad powers to ensure equal protection to all citizens. Adarand's lawyers want federal actions subjected to the same strict scrutiny applied to states. That argument lost twice in the lower courts. In the Supreme Court, however, all bets are off. The last time it approved a race-based special preference, in a 1990 case on broadcast licenses, the ruling came down as a 5-to-4 majority cobbled together by the tireless liberal William Brennan...
...verbal character of the statement chosen by these students shows at least a lack of faith--if not an outright disavowal--of the power of reasonable argument to approach and define the truth of a matter. This reliance on symbolism rather than substance should be anathema to both the Left and the Right...
...fact these students engaged in a disconcerting self-apotheosis. They exercised a right commonly only extended to deities--the right to make a statement unsupported by any sort of evidence or argument. In short, a heavenly pronouncement. What could be more arrogant and wrong-headed? It is this sort of pronouncement--unsupported by any pretense of argument--which speakers such as Camille Paglia and Harold Bloom make. It is this type of thoughtless statement which leaves thoughtful observers unwilling to take such people seriously...