Word: argumentive
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This is a chronic problem for advocacy-focused documentaries: the ones that are aesthetically meritorious tend to sacrifice their message, and the ones that adhere strictly to a detailed, informative argument, such as “An Inconvenient Truth,” are generally unwatchable. It is unfortunate the same amount of attention is allotted to advocacy documentaries as to films that demonstrate command of form and tell engaging stories. Although they offer treatments of potent topics, too often they end with a call to action that is poorly grounded at best and fraudulent at worst...
Jeffrey D. Sachs' article should be mandatory reading for all Americans. Brilliantly reasoned, beautifully written and tactfully presented, it is a powerful, balanced argument for regarding the T word--taxes--as one way out of this economic morass, not something to be avoided...
...Peabody incident does not mark Washington’s first “heroic” act as a Harvard shuttle operator. In the spring of last year, Washington called the police to Winthrop St., where he had stopped an argument before it erupted into physical violence...
...argument I've heard is that it would be unethical to compare vaccines against a placebo because you would be withholding crucial treatment from patients. Do you agree? No. We don't know these vaccines work, so you can't make that claim. But if you really find placebos to be unethical, then why don't you randomize against masks, hand-washing, gloves, distancing - public health measures that have proven to be effective...
German taxpayers, though, aren't buying that argument. In an open letter published in a Greek newspaper, German journalist Walter Wullenweber of Stern Magazine compared Greece to an ungrateful child and Germany to an aunt who is never thanked for her gifts. He calculated that if all the aid Germans have given Greeks was added up, since 1981, Germans have given each Greek $12,200. In return, Wullenweber complained, Greeks swindle the European Union and retire early. "You are by far our most expensive friend," he wrote...