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...screams “Boo-yah” over intercom in heated argument with managing editor...
...good argument can be made for Nomar and Manny. They represent the heart of Boston’s order, the third and fourth hitters who make everyone around them better. David Ortiz can put up MVP caliber numbers when Nomar and Manny are hitting in front of him. A-Rod, alone, can’t make up for the 230-plus RBIs that Nomar and Manny create...
Though U.S. officials have released some inmates deemed harmless, new ones are still arriving, with about 20 coming and going last week. Amid a global argument about their rights, the Supreme Court recently agreed to decide whether the captives at Guantanamo can at least challenge their detention in federal court. But in the meantime, however great the outcry from allies and human-rights groups, the U.S. military, along with the White House and the Justice Department, has not retreated from an unprecedented approach to prisoners captured in an unprecedented...
Regardless of your politics—and I myself am to the left of Mansfield on many issues—this spirit of debate should be considered a treat, and, sadly, an unusual one. At Yale, the president and his administration have a studious policy of avoiding argument at all costs, instead speaking about important issues—like labor strife and town/gown relations—through press agents and lawyers...
Intellectuals should always be looking for a good argument, trying to keep their students thinking. Rather than being offended by Mansfield’s speech about sex, students should be delighted that a professor is saying something worth quarreling with...