Word: argumentative
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...says. On a five-city swing through Iowa on Friday, Dean touted not a local poll but a Florida one showing him running only 8% behind Bush, despite the fact that he hasn't spent much time in the state. "It kind of puts the lie to the electability argument," he told reporters later...
Moreover, the constitutional claims have been rejected both by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) and by U.S. District Judge John C. Lifland who, in denying plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction, shot down its basic free speech argument in very strong language. Lifland found that the Solomon statue “does not directly target speech…discriminate on the basis of viewpoint;” that its “interference with speech and other protected rights is incidental;” and that “law schools cannot ‘erect...
...feeling. She never really projected the resolve and strength that characterized Helena. She came off best in the first part of the play, when she was weepy and despairing; she showed less skill as a resourceful and bold heroine, although she exhibited flashes of those qualities in her argument with the King...
...letter “broadly rejects” the argument that Harvard is merely paying its managers market wages. Meyer, however, called the letter “dead wrong” on that point and said that Harvard is actually paying wages below market value...
Writing a column about how crazy Michael Jackson is would be about as gratuitous as claiming that Matt LeBlanc’s Friends spin-off, Joey, isn’t destined for Frasier-hood. Besides, a recent photo of his face would shame any written argument I might make. But the leap from Off the Wall to child molestation, with which he was recently charged for the second time in a decade, requires no minimal amount of justification. Thus far, we have little more evidence than one child’s claim against Jackson—two, if we include...