Word: argumentative
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...heart of Harvard's argument is the fact that Berkowitz amended his complaint this fall, and included information about the list of scholars that he was compared to by his ad hoc tenure committee...
About a fifth of Harvard students report getting in a serious argument as a result of others' drinking--similar to the rate of occurrence at colleges nationwide...
...wife always gets annoyed when I make this argument because she says the troubadours were only observing something that already existed. But I'm not so sure. C. S. Lewis argues that they actually invented something new in the human heart, and we've been copying it ever since. In a thousand different ways, we all learn the rudiments of romantic love from popular culture. Kids learn how to kiss and flirt from the movies and TV, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to live up to dumb clichés they learned as children...
...more practical contingent might point to the venerable personalities saturating these few square kilometers. The hallmark of a great university, the argument goes, lies in its ability to convene and to remain the site of discussion; this University should thus be a place of many discussions, potential or actual. (This argument is best set within the usual pseudoscientific rhetoric of success, brainwaves and pouvoir...
...ever said the process would be a snap. The heart of the argument is as old as these two nations: Who should own Kashmir: India or Pakistan? During the 1947 partition, Kashmir was left unresolved. But its Hindu maharajah hurriedly ceded his kingdom to India when the new nation of Pakistan sent troops to occupy it. They were pushed back by India roughly to the point now known as the Line of Control, splitting the territory unevenly?with about two-thirds going to India and the remainder to Pakistan...