Word: argumentative
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...Once this plan was revealed, the public outcry was harsh: Healy faced a severe dressing-down before a congressional committee just days after leaving office. Despite Healy's argument that the Liberty Fund would go to worthwhile causes, many felt the Red Cross had deliberately misled donors by using September 11th in a bait-and-switch ploy. Monday, the organization offered to return money to any donor who felt deceived by the fund-raising; there?s no word on whether anyone?s taken them up on their offer...
...ninth, Frank Murphy, sat out because he was participating in military training exercises with the Army - but was so interested in the proceedings that he listened anyway, hiding behind a curtain at the Court. The justices announced their decision - unanimously against the defendants - at the end of oral argument, though they didn't issue a written opinion until months later, after six of the eight defendants had been executed...
...said, who provided al-Qaeda with a rationale for "collateral damage," citing an ancient fatwa calling for all-out war against pagan invaders, one that was likely to bring about the death of Muslim traders and civilians in the cross fire. If the civilian dead were indeed innocent, the argument went, they would be headed for heaven anyway...
Theses are by definition creative. Every Harvard student who writes a thesis must make an original argument. So what does the term “creative thesis” mean...
...Rumsfeld has pledged "to do everything humanly possible...to let the world know that this is not against the Afghan people," but he has little chance of winning that argument. Many rural Afghans will believe anything the Taliban tells them about the U.S.--including last week's accusation that American planes were dropping chemical weapons. The only way for the U.S. to counter such claims may be to slow the aerial campaign and avoid borderline targets altogether. The U.S. destroys about 1% of an enemy force for each day of bombing; by that yardstick, there remain many Taliban targets...