Word: argumentativeness
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...Could such a moment be upon us again? Are the walls around national economies being built once more? From the numbers, the argument seems absurd. World trade is growing healthily, by over 7% a year. The U.N. Commission on Trade and Development estimates that the value of global flows of foreign direct investment grew by a remarkable 29% in 2005. Yet a quick look around the planet might lead to the impression that globalization is in crisis. Ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Washington next month, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez told China that it must shape...
...find answers has just burgeoned," says Roberts of his students at Stanford, "but my impression is that their ability to write clear, focused and extended narratives has eroded somewhat." Says Koonz: "What I find is paragraphs that make sense internally, but don't necessarily follow a line of argument...
...accept the argument that the escalating sectarian violence in Iraq has nothing to do with 24 years of Sunni oppression of Shi'ites and Kurds under Saddam but is the result of the incompetent U.S. invasion. What about the passion to avenge atrocities committed by the former regime? The U.S. can't be blamed for that. Still, Iraqis are probably better off with a dictator, somebody to force them to get along. They thrive on dictatorships and blood feuds...
...housing prevents students from living with whom they are most comfortable is reason enough for the administration to change the policy.Opponents of mixed-gender housing raise the issue of sexual assault, which is an extraordinarily important issue in its own right. But in the context of choosing roommates, this argument is flawed. Susan Marine, the director of the Office for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, has reviewed research on the matter and has found no relationship between the type of housing an institution allows and the rate of occurrence of sexual violence. Marine feels that offering such an option would...
...colleagues, in 2004-05 with pleasure; I am on leave this year, but am looking forward to teaching it again in 2006-07, and in the foreseeable future. A number of my colleagues are also happy to teach the course. Lack of professorial interest cannot be advanced as an argument for scrapping this course that provides undergraduates with both the chronological breadth and the continuity necessary if one is to understand historical development. ANGELIKI E. LAIOU Cambridge, Mass. March 10, 2006 The writer is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History...