Word: argumentative
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...People will talk about the Ivies, about how the lowest grade is B, and the argument is that if you look at what these kids achieve before they even get in the door, it makes sense,” he said...
...course the argument isn’t one-sided; it never is. Palestinian acts of terror in past years, including the assassination of Israeli politician Rehavam Ze’evi last Tuesday, are reprehensible. Americans now know the fear in which Israelis live on a daily basis. Israel has not known a single act so terrible as that which occurred Sept. 11, but the constant, omnipresent fear of a lone man in a marketplace killing himself to annihilate anyone nearby may be even more terrifying...
...many tax havens. The group's pitch: Americans should be free to seek out lower tax rates anywhere in the world; competition from tax havens helps keep tax rates in the U.S. down. The conservative Heritage Foundation met with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and presented a similar argument. And the C.F.P. helped Don Nickles of Oklahoma, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, draft a letter to O'Neill applying still more pressure...
...Expos, but to fulfill it. Although some Expos sections may introduce first-years to difficult and important ideas, many more appear to students as intellectual wastelands, more concerned with the definition of plagiarism or the mechanics found in college-level writing than with the thinking required of college-level argument. A year-long course will offer plenty of time for instruction in writing as well as (or, indeed, as part of) instruction in the texts. A student’s best writing will come when he or she is intimately engaged with a text and genuinely enjoys working with...
...West was still reassuring. In response to a question adressing the decline of hip-hop, he asserted that hip-hop musicians and their art can deliver hope and empathy in a time where all of America faces fears of displacement in their own homes. West’s argument about the similarity of hip-hop to all other genres illuminated the idea that music carries with it a humanizing element which forces listeners to self-reflect...