Word: argumentative
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...86—are totally closed off to dissenting voices. The recent appointment of Niall Ferguson, who will enjoy a dual appointment to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School, proves this well enough. His apologia for the British empire and his recent argument that America is and should be an empire are hardly popular ones to make in these post-colonial days. Yet, his voice is not merely being tolerated, but embraced—he’s been invited to give a number of lectures in Cambridge since the announcement, and most of his future...
...perhaps for that reason, the script occasionally makes Joey, well, smarter than we remember him being. At one point, his sister - who has a 20-year-old son - mentions how great it is she got pregnant at 16, because she looks so young now. "You rarely hear the argument for teen pregnancy," Joey says. It's a great line. For Chandler...
...film indicate the Administration?s quandary in selling repression to the American people. One: ?A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, no doubt about it.? The other: ?They?re not happy they?re occupied. I wouldn?t be happy if I were occupied either.? Moore?s argument is that the U.S. is currently being occupied by a hostile, un-American force: the quintet of Bush, Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft and Paul Wolfowitz...
...can’t tell you how many times in the history of government people use the safety argument to discriminate,” Keenan said...
...part, Linn suggests that much of the opposition to the county's process for issuing marriage licenses is really just conservative opposition to gay marriage. "Process will always be the argument against an outcome that ... made people uncomfortable," she says. Every day, "elected officials come up with approaches to a variety of different things, and they talk to certain people, and when it's brought to a point where it needs to be either announced or drafted into a piece of legislation, it goes public. This is standard." (In this case, of course, there was no legislation--just a directive...