Word: argumentative
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...mostly for each other.” These individual essays eventually became one of the defining features of the journal and were grouped under the banner, “The Intellectual Situation.” Despite having similar interests, the editors rarely agree completely with each other. In fact, argument and debate have proved to be the lifeblood of the journal. “Things would get really ugly,” says Greif jokingly, describing the debates between the editors. “The key thing is we always stand behind the piece even when somebody else would write...
...Others approach dreams from a different angle. An argument that resonates with many is that whatever the explanation for dreaming, humans must do it for the same reason that all mammals have done it for more than 100 million years; any theory must make as much sense when applied to a rabbit as to a person. In the same Darwinian vein, sleeping and dreaming must serve important functions because they're vulnerable states and natural selection would have eliminated them if they didn't provide compensating benefits. In the ancestral environment, human life was short and perilous; ever-lurking predators...
...still has G.O.P. backers. Viet Dinh, former assistant AG to John Ashcroft and an author of the Patriot Act, has been his best friend since they had a nightlong argument freshman year at Harvard about what the framers of the Constitution thought of men's souls. Dinh toes the G.O.P. line on the probe but believes "Preet can be trusted to follow the facts and take appropriate actions." Gonzales testifies April...
...They have already failed to do so once. The Ohio Supreme Court rejected the plantiffs' argument that Lawrence created a new fundamental privacy right that made laws restricting consensual, private sex among adults unconstitutional. Instead, prosecutors successfully argued that Lawrence said only that anti-sodomy laws bore no rational relationship to a legitimate state interest - the lowest of Constitutional barriers. Agreeing, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that state interests in preventing incest - even among adults or step-relations - were perfectly legitimate...
...complaint raised by hunters is that the alternative ammo is too expensive. "Our primary issue is cost," says Andrew Arulanandam, spokesman for the National Rifle Association, which has opposed such moves in the past. Arulanandam and Novin also attempt to shoot holes in the animal advocates' case with another argument. Lead, they claim, is the best substance to use in ammunition because of it kills the prey "in a more humane way." It's claim that is sure to trigger a new round of crossfire in the battle over lead ammo...