Word: argumentative
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...Summers is never quick to accept an argument without analysis, according to O’Mary...
...found it absolutely fascinating to hear him work through issues,” recalls O’Mary, who is now working for Vermont Gov. Howard Dean’s presidential campaign and plans to attend Boston College Law School next year. “He would lay out arguments and the opposite side just so he understood the opposite side. He always felt if he did not understand the opposite view, he did not want to make a decision about that argument...
Curiously, prosecutors wished Brinkema had dismissed the case; they believed it would mean a cleaner and easier appeal. That's because, as public defender Dunham puts it, "it's a harder appeal for the government when it has lost the argument that we either have to compromise our national security or let Moussaoui go free. Instead, it's 'We either have to compromise our national security, or we can't kill him,'" which is exactly what government lawyers will have to argue now that Brinkema has taken away much of their case...
...measure students' general-reasoning abilities, not their specific knowledge of algebra or the extent to which they have written practice essays. Caperton's feat is actually twofold: not only has he begun to shape a U.S. curriculum, but he has also granted victory in a long, contentious argument about whether admissions tests should assess aptitudes or achievements. For decades, the SAT was, at its heart, an aptitude test; now it's becoming more like its competitor, the ACT, the nation's biggest achievement test...
...DIED. JEAN HELENE, 50, veteran West Africa reporter for Radio France Internationale; after a police officer shot him in the head following an apparent argument as H?l?ne waited to interview arrested opposition leaders; in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Authorities arrested the officer believed responsible and the government fired the chief of the national police force...