Word: argumentative
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...Especially precious is the assertion that making it harder to drink underage will make undergraduates less safe. Take the G&T’s out of HoCo events, the argument goes, and we’ll all flock to all sorts of unsavory off-campus locales—from final clubs to private houses to the Dudley Co-op—to get trashed, far from the safety net provided by House tutors and the Harvard University Police Department...
...possibility that a black hole eats up the earth is too serious a threat to leave it as a matter of argument among crackpots.' MICHELANGELO MANGANO, theorist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), in response to a U.S. lawsuit charging that CERN's new particle accelerator could endanger the planet...
...irrelevant. For 30 years, Thaler has documented the ways people act illogically: we eat more from larger plates, care twice as much about losing money as about gaining it, fret over rare events like plane crashes instead of common ones like car accidents. That research underpins Nudge's argument that as policymakers go about their jobs--whether regulating the mortgage industry or organizing food in school cafeterias--they should design programs that give people choices but also invisibly coax them away from bad ones. Putting healthful food at the front of a cafeteria line, for example, leads kids to take...
...Tang Clan and Brand Nubian. The Five Percenters, who split off from the Nation of Islam and hold their own beliefs on knowledge, mathematics, and black identity, are an important but lesser known presence in hip-hop. Reeves would have done well to integrate them in his argument that rap is the new black power movement, but they unfortunately go unmentioned. Reeves also has a tendency overstretch his intellectual analysis of his subject. For example, Reeves says that Snoop Dogg’s obscenely misogynistic “Ain’t No Fun” “offers...
...setting of military service, such hijinks could be seen as disqualifying for a presidential contender. But for McCain they are part of his very argument that he is qualified for the job. McCain's political advisers have lined up a spring full of regular events to define McCain in advance of open combat of the general election. Having already traveled overseas last month and burnished his biography this week, he is set to return to Washington, D.C., next week for the testimony of Gen. David Petraeus, who is commanding the military effort in Iraq. That will be followed...