Word: argumentative
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...classes similarly hover between the popular and the academic. Meanwhile, Harvard has a rep for being historically conservative about cultural studies, and it’s taken until this year for steps to be taken toward a film studies program. Asked to make a stump argument for studying pop culture in the academy, Mitchell groans. “Gee, do I have...
Bloomberg Professor of Law Martha L. Minow, who spearheaded the effort to file the HLS brief last month, agreed that the Justice Department’s choice not to respond to the faculty’s argument indicated a substantial weakness in the government’s case...
...Sawyer Island.? This was because, in Injun Joe?s Cave, she could scoot ahead and hide and then scare her daddy or mommy when them came around a curve. This she can do at home, for free. I don?t know where this fits into my roller-coaster-dynamics argument - go ask Malcolm Gladwell - but I?m sure it fits somewhere...
Perhaps the strongest argument for an extension is simply that it would greatly benefit students while imposing only a minimal additional burden on the rest of the community. Adding another hour to the curfew will certainly not increase loitering in the neighborhood, since students will have a place to be for more of their waking hours. Moreover, as was mentioned at a recent meeting of the Committee on House Life (CHL), House security guards currently leave at 12:45 a.m., meaning that the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD)—whose numbers do not change between...
...learn more about those various theories in the weeks and months ahead," sounding calm and reasoned as he tiptoed backward out of the saloon before he really got beat up. CIA chief Tenet, in a rare public speech at Georgetown University, made the more cogent--and contrite--argument, admitting that spying is a game of percentages. "In the intelligence business, you are almost never completely wrong or completely right...like many of the toughest intelligence challenges, when the facts of Iraq are all in, we will neither be completely right nor completely wrong." Bush called him afterward, says a White...