Word: argumentive
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...interference" as its reason for the ban. "We deeply regret this outcome which severely harms the Iraqi Olympic and Sports Movement and the Iraqi athletes but which is unfortunately imposed by the circumstances," read the letter. In May the Committee had given Iraq a negotiating window to present an argument for dissolving its national panel or remedy the situation, but said the government had failed to comply. (The speculation is that "political interference" is shorthand for what is believed to be the predominantly Shi'ite government's appointment of co-religionists to replace the mostly Sunni membership of the Iraqi...
...that "no one cares" that he's gay, even though he goes to gay bars (where he sees roughly 30 other American service members), e-mails friends about guys he is dating and posts suggestive messages about men on his Facebook page. In that context, he mentioned an argument against "Don't ask, don't tell" that I hadn't thought of: he said many unscrupulous gays use it as a "get-out-of-jail-free card" when they decide they want to leave the military early, even if they are not suffering under the policy. Stephen said so many...
Recently, conservatives have made the argument that if Americans like Stephen were allowed to serve openly, young heterosexuals from conservative families would stop enlisting. "Would we risk doing away with this system that works, where American families sit around the dinner table and they make a decision that their young man or young woman is going to go into this military because they share the values of that military?" asked GOP Congressman Duncan Hunter on 60 Minutes last year...
...venerable school of historiography holds that great men and women make history, not that history makes great men and women. It is still a chicken- and-egg argument: Who or which comes first, the revolution or the revolutionary, the reformer or the reformation, the parade or the person leading it? The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize last week to Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress, and F.W. de Klerk, President of the Republic of South Africa, bolsters both sides of this timeworn debate. De Klerk is pre- eminently an individual who has been pushed forward...
...requirement ''nothing less than an outright attempt to wedge the Commonwealth's message discouraging abortion into the privacy of the informed-consent dialogue.'' States are not free, he wrote, to use ''the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.'' Rejecting Pennsylvania's argument that the regulations were in the state's justifiable interest, Blackmun concluded in what reads like a manifesto: ''Our cases long have recognized that the Constitution embodies a promise that a certain private sphere of individual liberty will be kept largely beyond the reach of government. That promise extends...