Word: argumentative
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...This argument goes too far, I think, in its cynicism about the current plight of Israel. Although the Intifada is making life extremely stressful and increasing the personal insecurity of Israelis, the country is under no real military threat. A unity government comprising Labor and Likud would shut down the internal discourse on peace within Israel, reinforcing the Palestinians in their belief that there is no real difference between the two sides...
...when considered closely, the media's argument still fails to persuade. The salient feature for Kennedy in 1960 was more likely dead voters in Chicago than intrepid youths casting their ballots. Florida is also swampy ground on which to place a soapbox. One vote in this election made no more difference than in 1960 because not all ballots were counted. This is not partisan rhetoric. Americans learned that in national elections large numbers of ballots are discarded or incorrectly tallied. Indeed, college students' frequent voting method, absentee ballots, are not opened in many towns unless the number of them...
...less than six months after that incident, but more than two years after the bombing raids on Tripoli. The logic of revenge is inscrutable, certainly, but the idea of Iranian involvement was strongly suspected at the outset and still has not been universally abandoned. More central to Swire's argument: on Oct. 26 of the same year German police raided two apartments of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command and found a veritable bomb factory, complete with Toshiba radio-cassette players, explosives, detonators, timers and barometric pressure devices...
...version of the antiretroviral combination cocktail that sells for $10,000 to $15,000 a year in the U.S. costs $3,000 in Brazil and less than $1,000 in India. And when Brazil decided to provide the generic drugs free to all its AIDS victims, it disproved the argument that poor countries couldn't master the complex regime of AIDS pills. The government set up effective clinics, and reports indicate that Brazilian patients take their medicine as meticulously as American AIDS sufferers...
...That's a familiar argument from Al Gore's failed campaign, but Democrats still think they can draw blood with the fairness attack. In the latest TIME/CNN poll, a narrow majority of those surveyed, 51 percent, say Bush's plan favors the rich. Daschle's pollsters tell him the public also suspects that the projected $5.6 trillion budget surplus won't fully materialize to pay for the cuts. If it doesn't - and if Bush keeps his promises to hike spending for health care, education and missile defense - the tax cut will end up being paid for with "a raid...