Word: argumentative
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...incorporated into Ethiopia, but reemerged with the amicable secession of Eritrea in 1993, following the overthrow of Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam. Both countries insist Badme falls on their side of the geographically invisible line, and they appear willing to commit tens of thousands of lives to win the argument. "Everyone knows an arms embargo won't do anything to end the fighting because there are so many weapons stockpiled in both countries," says Dowell. "But an embargo will certainly impede both countries' ability to wage war a few years from now." And present experience suggests that...
...Myers, who describes Sorkin's approach as "Give me a really boring issue and let's have a fight about it." But, notes O'Donnell, because the scenes work only if the audience understands the conflict, "you get a better chance to hear each side of the argument than you do on most political argument shows." O'Donnell should know: he's a former Senate staff member, currently a regular on The McLaughlin Group...
Microsoft resists the monoculture argument as strongly as it does the DOJ breakup plan. "The reason [Love Bug] spread so rapidly is more a matter of the connectedness of systems than the specifics of platforms," insists Steve Lipner, manager of Microsoft's security-response center. Still, the company recognizes the threat from at least one source of infections. The latest version of Word profits from its predecessor's mistakes and comes with macros disabled by default, meaning that viruses like Ethan, Marker and even Melissa will find it harder to gain a toehold. But Outlook's macros...
Bolek Z. Kabala (Opinion, May 8) correctly points out that evidence surrounding the greenhouse effect is not wholly conclusive, yet his article is more ad hominem attack on Al Gore than substantive argument. He ignores the harmful effects of depleting the ozone layer, acid rain, and the estimated 64,000 deaths each year from air pollution, according to a study done by the Natural Resources Defense Council, not to mention the environmental destruction due to strip mining, deforestation and oil extraction...
...listened to this argument - actually, just a glimmering throwaway line - during a forum of presidential historians last night at the New York Public Library, an assemblage that included Lyndon Johnson's biographer Robert Caro; Edmund Morris, who did Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, and Jean Baker, biographer of Adlai Stevenson...