Word: argumentative
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...economics textbooks, while other students socialize. Unlike the often explicitly negative labels placed on Latino and black students, on the surface the Asian-American is a ‘model minority.’ Since Asians are doing so well in getting into college and getting jobs, the argument runs, they don’t need the lip-service respect paid to other minorities. Several white students at dinner in one of the House dining halls, who asked not to be named, offered their own takes on the stereotype. One said, “Well, they’re science...
Staring directly into the eyes of Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Harvard Law School (HLS) student Cassandra H. Welch calmly began her argument in a case that pitted two cosmetic corporations against one another...
Following 90 minutes of oral argument, the judges praised the plaintiffs for the best written legal briefs and the defendants for presenting the best overall case...
...team’s 28 games, and maintain the continuity of going through preseason activities. “I’ve been receiving a lot of flak for choosing the first semester,” Cusworth says. “I know the argument is ‘Why wouldn’t you want to stay for the Ivy League schedule?’ Ultimately I would only be able to come in a couple practices before that first game [after the break]—I would not be allowed to practice legally with the team...
...argument in favor of the Patriot Act’s surveillance provisions is that not subjecting private records to scrutiny creates a safe haven for ne’er-do-wells and that those who are doing nothing wrong have nothing to fear. But it strikes me as absurd, and even somewhat insulting to the investigative talents of FBI agents, to suggest that the government needs to compromise civil rights in order to catch the terrorists in our midst...