Word: argumentative
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...genuine. Without telling him, Mandoki dressed the actor’s older brother in fatigues and put him in the scene as Chava’s target. Expecting to see an extra, Carlos instead found his brother in his sights.According to producer Lawrence Bender, it took a heated argument with Mandoki to get Torres to discuss his reluctance to pick up a gun.Bender says, “Oscar said [to me], ‘I’ve felt ashamed all my life about it.’ Because these people killed his friends. He’s carried...
...have died out a half-million or so years ago-which the critics lambasted, is now looking less likely. But their new idea is even more audacious: the hobbits, they suggest, may come directly from the Australopithecus family, which went extinct something like 2 million years ago. Their detailed argument for this notion has yet to be published, and critics are still very cautious even about embracing the idea that the hobbits represent a new species at all. But while he agrees that more evidence is needed, Daniel Lieberman, a Harvard paleontologist who composed a commentary on the new discovery...
...desire for more social and meeting space has long been old news on this campus. However, this old argument has gained new intensity as more space has been lost to the College. As recently as 10 years ago there was more available meeting space per group, post-9 p.m. fun to be had in the Square, and a building called the Freshman Union. The union, now the Barker Center, used to serve as a student center for the freshman class. Freshmen ate their meals there, held meetings, and even got to watch cable television starting in 1993. Concentration fairs...
...difference in monetary worth between Harvard’s lowest-paid workers and other members of the community (and there surely will), so too will there exist a rift in the human worth accorded to members of each of those two groups.The notion is more intuitive than the formal argument makes it seem: when a Harvard student knows that the University has allocated a greater portion of his or her fees to pay the wage of a janitor (at a higher level than the laws of supply and demand would require), a condescending strain of sympathy subtly yet naturally replaces...
...based outside, you’re screwed,” he says. “If there was [a student center], I’d go there more [than Adams].”However, supporters of the decentralized student center idea use the same evidence to validate their arguments. According to Kidd, the current pockets of renovation will “allow students to reclaim life in the houses.” She doesn’t see one large student center as a cure-all for House problems, and her partner in crime agrees.“I think...