Word: argumentative
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...realities of the congressional schedule have started snapping into focus, so has Bush's message. Fading fast is the once-dominant sales pitch about his plan being the road to economic recovery. (Bush will find the argument handier as he pushes for speedy part-by-part passage, starting with the nonnegotiable - according to Bush - across-the-board cuts, because it remains a convenient way to woo crossover Democrats.) But the emphasis is clearly back on passing a cut for that classic Republican reason: "Giving the people their money back...
...court declined to state an opinion on the applicability of Napster's argument that it is an "Internet service provider," a type of organization that is shielded from copyright infringement suits by statutes of the Digital Millennium Copyright...
...contingent emotions that accompany them. I may feel a sense of awe at genetic individuality, but do I love my children only because I could not have predicted the color of their eyes? Respect for others' lives and well-being is too fundamental to be grounded in surprise; the argument has nothing to do with the morality of genetic engineering and everything to do with how other people (presumably bereft of Will's keen moral sense) will react...
...better argument is provided for the immorality of genetic engineering than the revulsion it inspires. Kass, indeed, titles his essay "The Wisdom of Repugnance" and attacks genetic engineering as evil because it is unsettling. But moral theory should be more than a summation of the circumstances under which one gets the willies. Genetic engineering is indeed "inhumane" if we think only of those things to which humans have historically been accustomed--but then so is the railroad, wearing clothes and refraining from killing one another. Reasons are required to decide which new practices are acceptable and which beyond the pale...
There are no other witnesses to corroborate that account, but Hallinan is skeptical. For one thing, Knoller "does not have bruises or bites"; for another, he says, the letter's account contradicts some of what she told police right after the attack. "There could be an argument for second-degree murder," says Hallinan. Nevertheless, he expects Noel will fight him all the way: "He's a pretty litigious...