Word: argumentative
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...foreigners incarcerated inside the U.S. have the right under most circumstances to challenge their detention before a judge. But the Justice Department has argued that foreign "enemy combatants" held outside the U.S. do not enjoy this constitutional protection, even though the Guantanamo base is under full U.S. control - an argument the court accepted...
...This all goes back to Vietnam, of course. There were some Vietnam-era antiwar protesters - few - who disparaged the troops along with the war. (A lively debate continues about whether any returning American soldiers were actually spat upon.) Vietnam also saw the first appearance of the ridiculous argument that we couldn't stop the war until our POWs were freed - as if stopping the war wasn't the quickest way to free them. This, too, fed a myth that opposition to a war was somehow a betrayal of the soldiers. Ultimately, in the case of Vietnam, the antiwar movement included...
...imported workers suffering inhumane treatment include inadequate wages, verbal and physical assault, even rape. Last month, leaders of the Association of South-East Asian Nations, meeting in the Philippines, also took similar steps to regulate and aid the region's millions of migrant workers. According to Manila's argument, workers accredited with specific skills would not be vulnerable to such attacks. They have also limited the training and licensing fees to new applicants for domestic jobs. Labor organizers argue that it is these young workers who can least afford the new fees...
...can’t walk into a discussion about Faust without hearing the argument that the "Larry debacle" forced the appointment of a woman president. Given how few people were involved in the presidential search process, it is surprising that everyone on campus seems to have the inside scoop. In reality, with the exception of the committee members themselves, no one knows what factors—be it leadership skills, academic background, fundraising prowess, or even gender—swayed the committee...
...support of her argument, she quotes Marianne Moore’s “England” in saying that excellence “has never been confined to a single locality.” Vendler says that Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman became two of the greatest American poets of the 19th century despite not having college degrees...