Word: argumentative
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...that Harvard is admitting legacies over equally—or even more—qualified candidates. Anti-legacyism is the last acceptable prejudice. These underqualified, overprivileged, moderately pasty folk need to stop slipping over the admissions border and stealing everyone’s slots. Or so the argument goes...
...Afghanistan experts suggest that Obama needs to make that argument now, while Congress is still being patient with the Administration's AfPak policy. "We're going to need time in Afghanistan to be successful," says California Representative Buck McKeon, the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee. Just back from a trip to Afghanistan, McKeon says his main worry is that Obama will come under pressure from his own party to speed things up: "I hope he doesn't get so much push back on the left that he waffles on giving the sufficient time to the military...
...attorney general flinched at the roar of the Lion's Den," he says. Cosby, who also heads the Kansas City office of the National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families, predicts that limits on sex-shop advertising could be won in the future with the right argument. He says there are constitutional zoning restrictions for sexually oriented businesses, and liquor and tobacco face advertising limits. Under this scenario, adult sex store billboards would go the way of the Marlboro Man. Says Cosby: "Someday, some attorney is going...
Investor Jim Rogers frequently says on television that we are in a long-term bull market in commodities and that this is the asset class that is really going to perform. Do you agree? I'm agnostic about it. I can see the validity of the argument, that it is different this time in commodities, but I don't have a strong conviction about...
...President in a country like Sudan, the size of Sudan, with the immense problems of Sudan, to administer and manage everything," said al-Bashir. "I don't follow the details. No one can follow the details in a country like Sudan." Of course, denying control is a useful argument when you're wanted on war-crimes charges...