Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...offensive force, Ruth utterly dominated his era (in 1921, only two American League teams hit as many home runs as Ruth did all by himself), and that was an era in which baseball had a near monopoly on the best professional athletes. The capstone to the Ruth argument is the five-season stretch during which he was among baseball's best pitchers before switching full time to the outfield. He was Mark McGwire, Tony Gwynn and Greg Maddux all rolled into...
...Among those in individual sports, his record is without peer, as was his combination of talents: size, speed, power, guile and the colossal heart that vanquished the great Joe Frazier. But Ali suffers from the converse of the Ruth argument: by the time Ali came along, the best athletes had been siphoned off by team sports. Ali was a giant, but most of his opponents were relative dwarfs...
...Unknown City: The Lives of Poor and Working Class Young Adults explores the twentysomethings who occupy the lowest economic stratum. The book does not pose a singular argument or present one over-arching thesis. Rather, by chronicling the lives of the young working class, it attempts to locate patterns and questions. But the questions that The Unknown City poses extend to more awesome issues than the future of economics and jobs. Instead, it documents the strain of poverty and race relations as inner cities turn from melting pots into pressure cookers, ready to explode...
...Washington legal scene, Stein, 73, looks back fondly on an earlier time, when the D.C. bar was filled with eccentrics. The leading criminal lawyer in the 1940s, Stein once recalled, got his cases because he was best friends with the chief of police. And when he made a closing argument, he screamed at the jury so loudly that he could be heard in Judiciary Square. "The bar used to have a roguish element about it, which in a sense was wholesome," Stein told the Washingtonian. "Lawyers didn't take themselves seriously...
...prosecutorial forbearance. It took Stein just six months and $312,000 to wrap up his investigation and decide not to bring any indictments against Meese. So when he finally sits down with Starr, Stein won't be just Lewinsky's defender. He'll be Exhibit A in the argument that it may be time for Starr's nearly four-year odyssey to come...