Word: argumentative
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...city's hipster crowd of musicians, artists and indie rockers. While the two women mingled with the other guests and smiled politely at small talk, Mitchell "was such a spaz," says Anne Elizabeth Maurer, who snapped a picture of him and Elizabeth. After getting into a tense theological argument with another partygoer, Mitchell began shouting "Jesus lives!" so loudly that he was asked to leave...
...conservative argument against the U.N. is similarly radical. It conforms, strangely, to the central assumption that the U.N. has failed as an agency of global governance. The Security Council is too structurally obtuse to make war, prevent war or even to enforce its own resolutions. The paralysis of the Soviet era has been succeeded by a tyranny of the irrelevant--with France, and its anachronistic veto, as Exhibit A. There is, of course, a fair amount of truth to this: the U.N.'s performance in Bosnia and nonperformance in Rwanda were disgraceful (although the U.S. had a hand...
Someone tries to engage him in argument and jabs him in the shoulder. White lunges at him and the two scuffle into the middle of the street until six police officers dive through the crowd and pull them forcibly apart. White strains under the grasp of a burly officer, gritting his teeth and bobbing his head furiously toward the other man. Then he collapses into the officer’s arms, exhausted. Sirens wail; police vehicles surround the intersection in an instant...
...same thing this time. He worries though that hardline intelligence and secret police officers have been put into the units to ensure the men stay and try to weather the U.S. onslaught. "Once it starts the first fight will be behind the lines to see who wins the argument to surrender or not," he says...
...reconstruction of Iraq's government - the U.S. seems to want to run things - but don't be surprised if the U.N. is eventually asked to step in. These will be thankless tasks, not likely to be noticed by the American public. And this is not a very romantic argument for a flawed institution - it is merely an argument for stability, prudence and practicality, values that conservatives used to celebrate...