Word: argumentative
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...Stalin's rule had that. And with terror comes boredom, in the oddest way. Mohamed Atta brought boredom to us too. It's not just airport queues, with some humorless airport official frisking your 6-year-old daughter. It's the confrontation with the dependent mind. There's no argument possible. We share no points of discourse. It's like being with any fanatical Christian, for instance. The higher faculties just close down, because there's nothing for them to do. So there's that paradox: when you get terror, you also get this completely daunting lack of response...
...front door opens onto the abyss. For 21 years, Israel's leaders have been telling the people that they were ''practically at peace.'' Why rush to negotiate some traumatizing political compromise? Now Shamir's government says Israel cannot negotiate as long as there is trouble in the territories, an argument that would suggest postponing negotiations until three or four weeks after the Last Day. An election scheduled for November may be among the most critical in Israel's history, but it is unlikely to give any candidate a mandate. ''I am afraid we are going nowhere,'' says Meron Benvenisti, head...
...akin to the argument that tries to make movies art by defining them as pictures seen on a wall (museum pieces) rather than illustrated stories. Yet Ingmar Bergman and Preston Sturges, to name just two great "directors," are primarily not visual stylists but writers. Similarly, Kurtzman and Spiegelman are remarkable less for their draftsmanship than for conjuring a world and giving it narrative shape, density and bite. You don't see their work so much as you read...
...required, through the military justice sytem. "I would rate our chances substantial in civilian court," Seitz says. He believes that even if a civilian court declines to allow Watada to put the legality of the war on trial, it is likely to be much more sympathetic to Watada's argument that the First Amendment protected him from being charged with misconduct for his anti-war speech, even while in the military...
...indefinitely based on their teaching performance.Currently, Harvard does not allow lecturers or teaching fellows to remain at Harvard for more than eight years. This archaic rule has a negative payoff: individuals who are hired for and excel at teaching students must leave regardless of their pedagogical ability. The typical argument for the eight year cap—that forcing lecturers to leave the University prevents them from getting stuck in a long-term teaching position—is paternalistic. If top-notch PhDs want to focus on teaching, Harvard should let them do so. And Harvard should go one step...