Word: argumentative
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...Harvard is certainly an institution that deserves and effectively utilizes the gifts it receives from its supporters. And while we take issue with the minimal impact Cohen believes that donations to Harvard inevitably have, we most object to what is perhaps the crux of his argument, which is that America’s oldest university has less of a “moral claim” on donations than do other colleges and universities with fewer resources...
...speech. I said that I'd been there, using an official Iranian translator, and that the speech had made headlines worldwide. "None of the Iranians here around the table recall such a statement," he said - and the assembled Marx brothers turned to stone. Well, I asked, what about the argument itself, that Iran needed a nuclear weapon to deter Israel? "We believe that the Zionist regime is too little to be able to pose a threat to Iran," he said. "We feel nuclear weapons have no application whatsoever in this time and age ... In my opinion, in our opinion...
When West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller gave his closing argument on Sept. 29 to the Senate Finance Committee in support of his amendment to create a new government-run health-insurance plan, he sounded amply frustrated. Describing the people of his state, he said they were "out in the cold" and "helpless" against faceless insurance bureaucrats who treat them unfairly. A public health-insurance plan, he said, would create competition for private insurers and could put patients, not profits, first. "These are people," he said, banging the table more than once. "Eleven-year-old kids. These are families...
...that argument is getting harder to make. In most of Europe, Afghanistan has always been the good war, compared with the bad invasion of Iraq. After the attacks against the U.S. in September 2001, almost 6 in 10 French voters supported sending troops to Afghanistan. Italians and Spaniards backed troop deployments in similar numbers; Britons were even more enthusiastic...
While the Internet has already made it difficult for subscription services like newspapers to compete, writers argue a similar transformation will occur with the university. Now that Harvard and other top universities are putting their content online, the argument goes, the physical university will become a relic. A high-quality classroom experience is open to anyone with a computer...