Word: argumentative
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...Voice of a Black God Michael Kinsley's essay "God is Black" made a strong argument that the presence and voices of James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman have influenced how America hears the voice of truth and authority [Jan. 26]. But there were others who set the stage. We cannot ignore the influence of Southern-raised black televangelists. And even more so, James Weldon Johnson's famous poem "The Creation," which is written in the black idiom: And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world. Paul...
There's some argument for that. An old joke in Islamabad: All countries have armies, but in Pakistan, the army has a country. Indeed, military dictators have ruled Pakistan for much of its 61-year history, and the armed forces control vast swaths of the economy...
...create jobs in a hurry, save poor people money in the long term and reduce energy waste that increases carbon emissions and empowers foreign thugs. It's a worthy program, and if anyone doesn't think so, now is the perfect time to have that debate. What's the argument in favor of heating and air-conditioning the outdoors...
...newspaper said Defense Minister Ehud Barak blocked publication of the data, arguing it could endanger state security or harm Israel's foreign relations. But the leaked report will make it easier for Mitchell to renew his eight-year old argument that the growth of illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank is an obstacle to the elusive peace between Israelis and Palestinians...
...many years, the roughly 3,500 members of the Iranian dissident group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) living quietly in Iraq drew little attention. But now the relatively obscure group is at the center of an increasingly contentious argument among leaders in Baghdad, Tehran and Washington, where decisions the new White House makes about the rebels will probably set the tone for U.S. relations with Iran in the near term...