Word: argumentative
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...into a team leader. In the past, he sulked on the bench and dealt with the threat of being unliked with silence, a strategy he says he copied from his reticent father. In Dallas, he didn't speak to Mavericks teammate Jimmy Jackson for six weeks following an argument and went two months without talking to his coach after a disagreement...
...meantime, Vajpayee has undergone a sudden conversion from peacemaker to warmonger?primarily in response to political pressures. This year's standoff on the border shows the dovish Prime Minister has accepted the argument that war?or the threat of it?works. In comments that set off alarm bells around the world, Vajpayee last month spoke twice of an impending "decisive battle" against India's "enemy." Although he has repeatedly said that he does not want war, the Prime Minister has sound strategic reasons for ratcheting up the rhetoric. Since Sept. 11, he has found the international community more sympathetic...
...Those who want to debate Yasin should engage him, not just smear him. When Yasin and I spoke right after the controversy began, he told me that none of those who were leading the charge against him had taken the trouble to contact him. Yet the level of argument against him sank to a low not worthy of the Harvard community, especially the misleading attacks regarding the HIS fundraiser...
...Zinn makes some good points when he deplores America's response to the terrorist attacks (for example, his argument that "the Bush administration is using the war as a cover for worsening the income gap in this country, while paying no attention to the problems of most of the American people, while enriching corporations"), but his solutions, including the removal of U.S. troops from Saudi Arabia, come perilously close to appeasement - the notion that if you just give the terrorists what they want, they'll leave you alone. This is impractical for as imperial a country as the U.S. - which...
...Those who want to debate Yasin should engage him, not just smear him. When Yasin and I spoke right after the controversy began, he told me that none of those who were leading the charge against him had taken the trouble to contact him. Yet the level of argument against him sank to a low not worthy of the Harvard community, especially the misleading attacks regarding the HIS fundraiser...