Word: argumentative
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...when the attacks started after your “women in science” speech, did you not strongly defend yourself and your argument from the outset? You’re certainly capable of engaging in a debate. It felt a little like John Kerry’s reluctance to confront the Swift Boat veterans, who eventually got the best of him. What was holding you back? LHS: Every group has had, can have, and will have great scientists, and I never wanted to do anything that suggested that I or Harvard thought anything else or wanted to send...
...investigate 9/11. Then you directly question the authenticity of their suffering, saying they are "reveling in their status as celebrities ? I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' death so much." You also call them various names - "harpies," "witches" - which is not only rude but seems to undercut your argument that they are off-limits to public debate. Why couldn't you offer your (already provocative) point that some "9/11 victims turned themselves into the arbiters of what anyone could say about 9/11" without the name-calling...
This might sound like I’m accusing Harvard graduates of being anti-intellectual, rebelling against a strict academic environment by taking solace in something unimportant. But, in fact, I think that we are over-intellectual: we seek to find an underlying argument or an overlying strategy in every random encounter...
...Additionally, Kagan and 39 other law professors filed a separate brief arguing that Harvard’s practice of holding all recruiters—military or not—to the same nondiscrimination policy was in compliance with the equal access clause of the Solomon Amendment. Roberts rejected the argument of the HLS professors, some of whom were his teachers over 25 years ago. He wrote that the professors’ interpretation of the equal access clause “is rather clearly not what Congress had in mind.” Roberts also tossed out FAIR?...
...same time, as a student newspaper, The Crimson is uniquely positioned to provide a venue for discussion of important social issues. United by a desire to publish truthful, insightful, and interesting stories, a group of students who are otherwise diverse can come together in discussion and argument, whether it be a casual newsroom discussion about global politics or a debate on the subjectivity of beauty in the course of choosing the Fifteen Hottest Freshmen. The more diverse the people who make up this organization, the better our discussions...