Word: argumentative
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...that there is a responsibility that comes with this powerful product. The idea that as students at an elite university we have an ethical obligation to the world beyond our ivy-draped walls is perhaps voiced by the occasional PBH volunteer or someone of that ilk, but such an argument is rarely heard from the administration. In fact, people such as our president, who admittedly does make the occasional call to serve, seem to defend the philosophy that education can be a value-free endeavor...
Roberts subsequently served as a lawyer in the Reagan administration, as deputy solicitor general under President George H. W. Bush, and then as a private-practice attorney specializing in appellate argument...
Summers, who hasn’t said a word about the case since, didn’t exactly explain how or why the government was treating his friend unfairly. Most of the facts in the case were never in dispute: aside from one semantic argument that went nowhere in court, the only major disagreement from the get-go was how much Shleifer and Harvard would have to pay to resolve the claim...
...Proponents of intelligent design insist that it is founded on science, because evolution can't fully explain some of the complexities of living things - the structure of the eye, for example - which they argue follow a conscious design. And while some critics maintain this argument is but a ploy to avoid the Supreme Court's ruling, advocates of ID avoid identifying who or what that designer might be. Could be Klingons, even...
...thrust of the ID argument - that there are many things not yet explained by the theory of evolution - will be challenged by expert witnesses, on the grounds that it holds true for a variety of other widely taught scientific theories. Plate tectonics, for example or even Einstein's General Theory of Relativity fail to cover all bases. Still, ID'ers will counter, failing to teach kids about the scientific controversy over evolution is tantamount to keeping them ignorant. Except that there is no significant scientific controversy. ID proponents are correct in maintaining that there are legitimate scientists - a relatively tiny...