Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...takes to travel to Boston and back is not a good reason to miss out on the city's cultural experiences. If you're time is too valuable to spend an extra few minutes in transit, then bring a book to read on the way. The only legitimate argument for not spending time in Boston is a monetary one, since the costs of transportation, museum entrance fees and food and drink can quickly add up. However, many events, from art fairs to the Hemp festivals, are free, so even the most cost-conscious Harvard student still has reasons to make...
...Hate Crime Too Broad" (Dissent, Oct. 14): Criminal law has always taken into account "the content of criminal motive." Just as society punishes a coldly premeditated murder more harshly than one committed in the heat of argument, just as we deal more severely with people who willfully violate the law than those who do so by accident, so, too, should we add increased penalties for criminals whose attacks are motivated by hatred...
...this argument. The journalism industry chooses and nurtures its crops deliberately. All the news channels, magazines and Web sites over-inform the marketplace and play up the importance of the cash crop to the point that journalism has the feel of the Super Bowl at halftime...
...must consider a third argument," Sullvian said. "[Homosexuality] is part genetic, part environmental, but not a choice...
...fact, the procedural argument really bothered me. If the people elected Clinton, why couldn't we, through our representatives, choose to get rid of him? Why should we be forced by our collective mistake to two more years of aggravation, embarrassment and stagnation? Impeachment, it seemed, was simply a judgement call that Congress would have to make. But as the engines of impeachment began to get in gear, I started to experience a new and very unpleasant feeling--a feeling of political powerlessness...