Word: argumentative
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...other witnesses are both uncles of Dipendra. Ravi, a widower, was married to a daughter of the late King Tribhuvan. Maheshwar Kumar Singh, 66, is married to another daughter of Tribhuvan. None of the three witnesses saw any indication, as had been earlier reported, that there was a family argument before their arrival?something that might have set Dipendra off. Nor did they see what ultimately happened to the Crown Prince, who was found with fatal gunshot wounds on a footbridge between the billiards room and his house across the garden. What they do agree upon is that Dipendra went...
...Russia is not. It doesn't take a super brain to suspect, then, that the alliance is directed against them. NATO has tried over the past few years to alleviate Russian concerns through various consultative structures, but that's done nothing to mediate the flaw in the NATO argument or Russian suspicion...
...Scalia's comments during oral argument in a case earlier this year on whether law enforcement could impound a home during the time it took to get a search warrant make his opinion in the most recent case, Kyllo v. U.S., less surprising. "There is considerable interest on the part of an individual in going into his own home," he said. "We're going to go crazy trying to balance these things all the time." And also "I'm concerned about complicating the criminal law more than necessary...I'm not sure human beings are capable of figuring...
...Monday, the President announced new research initiatives and reiterated his complaint that Kyoto's mandatory cuts don't cover the developing world. The Europeans are going to see the latest initiative as a fig leaf, and they're not impressed by the argument over developing countries - after all, the problem today is primarily a result of a century of economic activity, most of it in the industrialized world. The European position, essentially, is that "We made most of this mess; we must take the lead in cleaning it up." The Kyoto framers planned to bring the developing world into...
...Women?s health groups hail the decision as a breakthrough; activists hope the federal ruling will signal other employers that inequitable coverage will not stand up to legal scrutiny. (They won?t get any argument from the defendant; after the judgement was announced Bartell?s chief financial officer, Jean Bartell Barber, said she believes Lasnik wanted to make an example of her company...