Word: argumentative
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...right (or, er, rite) - might vote down the new version and initiate liturgical insurrection. The fact that they've decided to decline some of the changes - such as the substitution of the phrase "consubstantial with the Father" in describing Christ for "one in being with the Father," on the argument that the latter uses more understandable words - suggests that they are not totally rolling over. But, as they have learned the hard way since Vatican II, it may only be a matter of time before their non-acceptance is deemed unacceptable...
...Public opinion. Australians remain wary of nuclear power. A Newspoll early this month found that 51% opposed building nuclear power stations and 38% supported it. In the end, it's likely to be popular feeling, rather than hard-nosed argument, that decides whether Australia says nuclear...
...policy toward gay and lesbian service members was “corrosive.” And Harvard joined six other universities in filing a brief to the Supreme Court arguing that schools had a First Amendment right to exclude military recruiters. The court ultimately rejected that argument...
...assume, for the sake of argument, that the fundamental charges made by the Council of Europe last week are accurate: that, since 2001, 14 European countries have, to varying degrees, been complicit with "extraordinary renditions," the cia's system of moving suspects to countries where they were, or may have been, tortured. Dick Marty, a Swiss parliamentarian who led the Council's investigation, slammed what he called a "reprehensible network" of European nations that, he said, allowed the cia to operate on their soil, provided stopover points for suspects en route to a torture location, or exchanged information with...
...ability to induce people to take deeply seriously what is obvious satire. I'm not saying Coulter doesn't believe what she says - if you talk with her mother, whos even more conservative, youll know that she does - but she knows that outrage is the blunt cousin of argument, that irony is more accessible than a thousand position papers. She knows that saying what no one else would dare to say will get her attention. It works every time, as it did this week when Coulter attacked one of America's most hallowed, untouchable figures - the 9/11 victim...