Word: argumentative
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...unfortunately for Ohio's curriculum reformers, their argument for putting ID in schoolbooks isn't that it generates productive doubts. Rather, they're billing it as a theory in its own right. And here the ID movement's political past may sabotage its political future...
...This time is different. Twenty-eight Americans have died in the war since October, but the national mood remains resolute. Here, without argument, is one way in which Sept. 11 truly has changed the way we think. "The American public," says Ralph Peters, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and a military scholar, "is sensible about war and amazingly stoical." Who, six months ago, would have dared say that...
...strongly agree with the argument made in “Harvard’s Blacklist” (Editorial, Mar. 7) with one exception. The support that The Crimson Staff gives to University President Lawrence H. Summers’s efforts to prevent “any further disruptive behavior of this kind,” is misplaced...
...doubt our activist friends will brush off the tired argument that a few colleges like MIT or Wellesley pay over $14 per hour, so why not Harvard? Harvard has the most money, so Harvard should pay the most. But PSLM sees the world with tunnel vision. They always leave out that in comparisons to other Boston area schools, Harvard is in the middle of the pack, not the bottom as they pretend...
Moreover, the argument for Harvard to increase payout from the endowment is even greater in light of the University’s history of rarely meeting its payout goals. Every year the Harvard Corporation sets a goal for payout that falls between 4.5 and 5 percent of the endowment. However, because this number is set in November—10 months before the start of the fiscal year—and then not readjusted for economic growth in the succeeding months, Harvard rarely pays out at its target rate. In 2001, for example, Harvard paid out only 3.3 percent...