Word: argumentative
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...perhaps the best argument against making it more difficult and intrusive to enter this country to study is that America is the school of the world. Foreign students learn skills here that they can take back to their homes and use to spread American ideals of free inquiry and personal liberty. American students themselves also benefit from interacting with those from other countries, and our campuses are enriched by foreign students’ presence...
...world makes their blood run cold. A top British diplomat acknowledged that London had heard the case to widen the war but said, "What we see in terms of policy is very measured. We have seen no evidence of hasty rushes to judgment or pounding the sand." Still, the argument over the nature of the Iraqi regime has been running through Washington during five presidencies. It would not take much evidence of Iraqi complicity in the atrocities of Sept. 11 to resuscitate...
...have long admired Morrow for his insights, his strength of argument, his clarity of thought. What sadness, then, indeed what a shock, to hear him call for "a ruthless indignation" and "a policy of focused brutality." If we act ruthlessly in our response as a nation, we will have become as uncivilized as those who have perpetrated these awful deeds. PAUL W. NISLY Grantham...
While that argument makes sense from an intelligence standpoint, it may not fly diplomatically. And for now, the known case against bin Laden is circumstantial...
...startling—and most refreshing—clarion to accountability for Harvard’s current student body. Regardless of whether such incongruities between the call for action and the reluctance to act stem from youth, hypocrisy or a malignant sense of entitlement, your argument rightly confronts students with the impotence of words in the absence of commensurate deeds...