Word: argumentative
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...difficult to decipher where the technical merits of each side?s argument end and the raw political motives begin. The Bush Administration considers Chavez a threat to stability in the region, while Chavez is a loudly outspoken U.S. critic who calls Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" and says that the U.S. is poised to either assassinate him or invade Venezuela for its oil reserves...
Part of this argument is spot on. The deserted common rooms in Yard dormitories testify that more frosh social space is the last thing this campus needs. In reality, however, a 10,000 square foot Thayer Hall common room isn’t quite what the College has in mind. Rather, the current plans call for, in addition to some new JCR-like freshman space, expanded offices for the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, prayer space for the Harvard Islamic Society and Dharma, and a new Harvard College women’s center. The BGLTSA resource center...
...inmate Michael Morales should be executed by lethal injection, his lawyers contended that the state's execution procedures amounted to cruel and unusual punishment because scientific evidence suggests the intravenously administered three-drug mixture doesn't alleviate severe pain as it stops the heart. But it wasn't their argument, or a decision from presiding U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel that temporarily halted Morales' execution. Rather, it was the ethical stance by doctors, who refused to serve as monitors prepared to intervene in case of complications, because of their Hippocratic oath to do no harm...
...this will get lost in the left versus right sniping you’ll see in the next few weeks—it’s an important story. Ultimately a lot of the issues with Larry were about personality. At the same time, the underlying argument was about what kind of place a university ought to be. Not just any university, but the university I’ve argued is the most important in the world. I don’t think that conversation is going to end. President Bok, whom I haven’t had enough conversations...
Though Cornell did tally a controversial goal at 18:18, a score that senior blueliner Tom Walsh argued did not cross the line—an argument for which he earned a 10-minute misconduct after bumping into the referee—the Crimson held on through a rough and physical final two minutes to escape with...