Word: argumentation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nearly one month ago I argued on this page that every Harvard student--not to mention every parent who pays a tuition bill--should know of his or her right not to participate in subsidizing abortions through University Health Services (UHS). I assumed this was as uncontroversial an argument as anyone could make at this University. But a flurry of acrid letters to the editor proved my assumption wrong. The most indignant of these respondents wanted to abolish the right I had advertised and interpreted the right of a woman to choose an abortion as the virtual right...
...Tell that to Frederick Warren-Boulton, a leading economist and current Justice Department witness. Warren-Boulton offered what may well become the feds' counter-spin: That Microsoft's exclusive contracts and illegal monopoly leverage drove its bruised browser rivals into the arms of AOL. Meanwhile, a more cultural argument was being made on bulletin boards across the Internet -- that the mainstream will always appropriate successful companies that operate on the fringe. "The battle is over," wrote one AOL-phile. "AOL wins...
This convenience argument is one I cannot argue with. I cannot argue with it because it's true. Look at the OCS newsletter and you will find private sector classifieds vastly outnumbering public service jobs...
...This argument is fallacious, because Harvard has a responsibility to offer diversity not only in the field of education, but also in terms of what students can do with that education. Although statistics, classics and VES departments are relatively smaller and less popular, the University, justifiably, felt it worthwhile to subsidize them for the sake of variety and diversity. The same argument ought to hold when presenting career options, especially since it is where they will end up spending most of their lives...
Laser therapy costs half as much as a bypass operation, which can run $40,000 or more. Gene therapy has no fixed price yet, although it is expected to cost significantly less than bypass surgery. There's no argument that laser therapy provides short-term relief for severe angina. Some studies suggest longer-term benefits. One found that almost three years after tmr, patients who had the worst form of angina (class IV, the kind that wakes you up at night) could maintain on average class I or II (pain with exertion only...