Word: argumentative
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...We’re told about issues we’ll be faced with, [we] meet experts and have the opportunity to meet the freshman class,” Schwartz said. “There is little argument that [Washington] is very partisan, more so than other years but [the conference] is very open...
...novel’s principled princess. When drunk for the first time, Charlotte starts to say something, forgets it, and the narrator dryly explains: “the truth was, she couldn’t remember whuh wuz funny, dude.” Assuming for the sake of argument that Charlotte is believable, open contempt of her foibles defeats the very purpose of her creation. If Wolfe is siding with the reader in critiquing Charlotte, he shouldn’t present her as the objective witness to college pandemonium at the novel’s outset. In this case, Wolfe...
...That argument is completely without merit and was bound to convince none of the Court’s nine justices....Claims that giving the state judiciary this sort of power violates some separation-of-powers norm binding on the states are entirely frivolous,” Tribe wrote in an e-mail. Tribe filed an amicus brief in January urging the SJC to support same-sex marriages...
...simply paying these managers “fair market value,” based upon the compensation reportedly earned by leading private hedge fund managers. But should the university’s endowment be treated like private fortunes or treated as a public trust? No one should accept the argument that it is necessary to pay anybody $25 million to $35 million per year as an incentive, or reward, for giving best efforts to Harvard, whether as a money manager, dean of students, professor of biology, cafeteria worker, security guard or anything else...
Hollings: I'm a trial lawyer. I made enough money in 20 years as a trial lawyer to afford [working in] this Senate. And I was enthused because, good God, you had a better class of life here. You could make the final argument to the jury and then go in the jury room and vote. The Senate was just hunky-dory. I was just tickled to death. And I'm not sad that I'm not making all that money because I've been enriched otherwise. I'm better stimulated. And all my other trial-lawyer friends are either...