Word: argumentative
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...thesis is not unassailable. He is, in my view, unduly pessimistic about the capacity of the melting pot to work for Mexican immigrants. There seems little historical or social-scientific merit to his contention that intrinsic “Mexican values” retard their assimilation. This argument is disturbingly reminiscent of the “Asian values” shibboleth that was used to justify authoritarian dictatorships in Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea. It’s obvious why Mexican-Americans would find it wholly offensive...
...bill proposes to take $750 away from groups that aren’t getting funded,” said Park, who is also a Crimson editor. “If the termbill argument is valid then we don’t have any kind of extra money to be giving away...
When one audience member asked about the merits of Marshall’s argument, Klarman said, “Marshall was a one-man law firm...I am a big fan of Thurgood Marshall, but I don’t think the argument had a large impact on the outcome...
...They exchanged a few words and had a argument,” DeFrancesco said. “It escalated, they got out of a car, a few punches were thrown and they fled...
...have ?moved heaven and earth? had he known 9/11 was coming. Once again, the president portrayed the war with Iraq as an extension of the war on terror. It was all of a kind, Madrid trains, Iraqi insurgents, Jerusalem buses. It?s all one sinister ideology. The Kerry-Democratic argument that Iraq was a distraction from the war on terror got no quarter...