Word: argumentative
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...relaxed Brooklyn baritone that makes him sound a bit like a ghetto Sinatra (callous but with enviable style). His upbringing has also made fans a little more sympathetic about his avarice. Born Shawn Carter, Jay-Z grew up in Brooklyn's infamous Marcy projects, shot his brother in an argument at age 12, hit the streets to sell drugs soon after, dodged some bullets at close range and then, at 23, dedicated himself to making millions through rap. "I've taken the whole ride," he says. "I didn't skip any floors. I started at the lower lobby. Went...
...French Jews, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suggested he might not have bothered. "The best solution to anti-Semitism is immigration to Israel," Sharon said on a visit to Italy. "It is the only place on earth where Jews can live as Jews." It's the classic Zionist argument, familiar to Paris rabbi Tom Cohen, who insists that "Jews have not only the right, but an obligation to be outside Israel. Israel needs a strong diaspora." Sharon promotes immigration to counter the demographic threat that Jews will become a minority in Israel and the occupied territories. In doing...
...known at the time that someone had used that term before." Nor does he take credit for creating the first graphic book. Eisner admits that, "I can't claim to have invented the wheel, but I felt I was in a position to change the direction of comics." TIME.comix' argument is that Eisner's book, published outside the comic book system and pretty clearly the first comix work deliberately aspiring to literary status, by having the term on the front cover, crystallized the concept of a "graphic novel." But the matter is clearly open to debate...
...response. Nor did she cite her opposition to the war in Iraq, her support for canceling the Bush tax cuts, how she voted for more federal aid for education or how ardently she wants to protect the social security system. No, Moseley Braun had a more persuasive argument in mind: “If you really want to change the political system and the political culture, my approach is that I am the clearest alternative to George Bush…men have ruined it—our country is in a mess. It’s time to give...
...flip-side to this argument is, of course, that Harvard students will be rewarded for their hard time in Cambridge with the singular Harvard diploma. Would it be asking too much to not only be able to love the name on your diploma but the experiences behind it? The administration seems to think so. But isn’t wanting it all part of what makes us Harvard students...