Word: argumentative
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...court decision makes you wonder why it takes a tricky legal argument to make websites accessible. The disabilities act creates "a comprehensive prohibition" on discrimination. How can "comprehensive" cover physical stores and not independent websites? Either people are not reading the law correctly, or the law should be amended...
...passé. "Fashion is now about marketing and merchandising," declares Pierre Berge, Yves Saint Laurent's business partner and a key player on the Paris fashion scene for several decades. "It is not about designer fashion. It is about [mass-market retailers like] Zara." The clothes are nice, the argument goes, but the real craft is in how you sell them...
...News and a lot of Democratic operatives, people funded by George Soros," the liberal financier who has become a bogeyman of the right. Hastert went on to say, without producing any proof, that the revelation was the work of Bill Clinton's operatives. But that line of argument, of course, suggests that Republicans would have preferred to keep Foley's secrets locked away, presumably at the pages' peril. And the Democrats for once are showing the good sense to stay out of the way when the other side is self-destructing. Sighed one of the younger House Republican aides...
...Hastert and his forces have been trumpeting their charges against the Democrats, a whisper campaign has been launched in Washington to blame an internal culprit: a "velvet mafia" at the upper levels of G.O.P. leadership on Capitol Hill. Foley, that line of argument went, had been protected by gay staff members like Fordham, Trandahl and others whose names were being widely circulated. Says a top aide: "It looks like they may have tried to handle this among themselves because they were similarly situated...
...evening's entertainment was Foley. Before last week, his claim to fame on the Hill was a knack for impersonations and storytelling. He could mimic Bill Clinton, and both sides of an argument between outgoing House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas, a California Republican, and the panel's ranking Democrat, Charles Rangel of Harlem (two very different and very vivid characters). Foley regaled us with hilarious stories, about such things as the bizarre celebrity world of Rep. Sonny Bono, since killed in a skiing accident. Picture Cher dropping by the home of her ex-husband with new love...