Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move to Energy might suit Richardson?s domestic political ambitions, adds TIME correspondent Douglas Waller, but ?the counter-argument among his aides is that the Energy job requires a lot of unpopular decisions on issues such as nuclear waste.? All that Mike McCurry would offer on the matter yesterday was, ?I haven?t heard the President finalize any recommendations for that cabinet vacancy.? The big tease...
...Sofen's argument cited several issues--gender-blind shuttle service, junior faculty, transgenderism and closeted students--that he feels are important to both the gay and straight communities at Harvard...
Early drafts of the act were specifically pro-Christian. Ultimately, however, its argument was stated in pure civil-libertarian terms: prayers that would be coercive if required of all students during class are protected free speech if they are just one more after-school activity. Nevertheless, recalls Marc Stern, a staff lawyer with the American Jewish Congress, "there was great fear that this would serve as the base for very intrusive and aggressive proselytizing." Accordingly, Stern's group and other organizations challenged the law--only to see it sustained, 8 to 1, by the Supreme Court in 1990. Bill Clinton...
...more meaningful argument for a Jewish state is that put forth by Viennese journalist Theodor Herzl a century ago: the normalization of the Jewish people. Herzl's dream of a sovereign Jewish nation was realized some 50 years later in 1948, and today the state of Israel thrives as a Jewish land. In Israel, Jews are not a minority, so no one questions whether there are too many Jewish columnists on a newspaper, for example. In Israel, the Jew is Jewish regardless of his religious beliefs, so whether or not one attends a synagogue is irrelevant to his membership...
David I. Rosenthal '01 said, "They are parading around saying 'we can do certain things,' but they have no convincing argument. Also, the exclusionary policy against men hurts the foundation of their premise...