Word: argumentative
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...conception, but I understand that to a lot of people, a fertilized egg is just a mass of cells. However, when it comes to partial-birth abortion, which involves partially delivering a 5-6 month old fetus before killing it, it is very difficult for me to stomach any argument for why such a procedure should ever be permitted, except to preserve the health of the mother. In 2000 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of this procedure, but then it was outlawed in 2003 by the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to consider...
...overly liberal faculty attacking some poor academic who dared to speak the truth. It didn’t matter that no one knew exactly what Summers said. The issue could be easily and, unfortunately, inaccurately framed as radical liberals versus straight-talking conservatives. Nuance had no place in this argument. At the time, for example, a major cable news network invited several Harvard students, including two former Crimson editorial chairs, to discuss the issue on-air. But as the actual discussion developed, the show’s producers were aghast to discover the complexities of the issue...
...dollars. Thousands were no doubt spent on chartering his private extradition jet alone. Now, the U.S. Marshal’s service might argue that Entwistle’s posh return-flight and subsequent motorcade were necessary owing to security reasons (stemming from his tabloid cover-boy status), but this argument makes little sense. If security were really such a concern, then one might imagine that the Marshals and state police would find it more effective to extradite Entwistle in secret—outside of the media spotlight—and transport him to jail in an unmarked vehicle. Although...
...Congress has tried in the past to require the original shipper to provide additional information, such as where the container was packed with its cargo. But U.S. retailers who import goods from overseas claim that more disclosure makes such cargo an inviting target for thieves, an argument that has worked so far but doesn't satisfy critics. The problem is, "we don't know whether the manifests are accurate or not when the ships are loaded," says Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, who has sponsored legislation to strengthen maritime security. "The containers are not tracked as they come overseas," Murray adds...
...public listing of these parties on the UC website would be one such mechanism. Moreover, we hope the UC would also develop an internal system of spot-checking parties to ensure that student hosts do not turn away or discourage everyone but their closest friends from attending. The argument that many have made against widespread publication of the times and locations of the UC parties—namely, that the parties will rapidly become overcrowded, sweaty, and unpleasant to host—is ultimately unconvincing. Under the current system, even those party-throwers who, in good faith, want to publicize...