Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they claimed to deplore. Of course, this complaint could be used to discredit dissent in any war, and often has been. Aiding and comforting the enemy was a frequent charge against the antiwar movement during Vietnam. Today, when almost nobody denies that Vietnam really was a quagmire, the only argument left against those who called it a quagmire at the time is that they were responsible for making...
...enemy. And Vietnam put an end to the notion that dissent should stop once the decision to fight has been made. If not for protests while that war was going on, it might still be going on. But there's a distinction between making a moral or strategic argument against the use of military force and relentlessly predicting military disaster. There's also a distinction between heartfelt opposition to a use of military force and treating this issue as fodder for a different and less important battle of politics and personalities. The intense suspicion of President Clinton by the Washington...
...find it somewhat difficult to respond to Scott Resnick's "May I Take Your Order?" (Opinion, May 21), if only because it's not quite clear what Resnick is demanding. I suspect this is partly because his argument is composed largely of the platitudes of corporate consulting, such as "asking more and demanding less." It seems clear, however, than anyone who can write, without apparent irony, that Harvard should be "a 'Nordstrom's' of the higher education industry" has a gross misconception of the purpose of universities...
...find it somewhat difficult to respond to Scott Resnick's "May I Take Your Order?" (Opinion, May 21), if only because it's not quite clear what Resnick is demanding. I suspect this is partly because his argument is composed largely of the platitudes of corporate consulting, such as "asking more and demanding less." It seems clear, however, than anyone who can write, without apparent irony, that Harvard should be "a 'Nordstrom's' of the higher education industry" has a gross misconception of the purpose of universities...
...officers responded to a call from Pearl Street of an altercation between a female and a male. The female stated that her boyfriend had poured beer on her after an argument. She was asked not to return, and gathered her belongings and returned her keys to her boyfriend...