Word: argumentive
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...could easily make the argument that Ivy League regular season play is, by its nature, a tournament that weeds out contenders and chooses the best team. Because the Ivy League only receives one spot for the NCAA tournament, the team that gets selected should be the team that has had the most impressive regular season...
...impossible to know which side wins in a cost-benefit analysis: “Might the Muslim students’ discomfort outweigh the educational benefits?” is an argument with which I sympathize. I am skeptical, however, that discomfort can ever be avoided when dealing with tensions of privileges, exclusion, and religion; these issues are controversial because of their public nature—in how they infringe on the privileges of some in order to benefit others—and the administration’s attempt to sidetrack controversy only created more...
...unhappy reality than the current uproar over changes in dining hall menu. During the past month, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) has been decreasing the number and variety of its meal offerings. They blame the change on increasing food prices—which of course, like any budget-based argument at Harvard, seems not to convince many...
...France visit sex counselors. But the study shows that some enduring French sexual myths are in fact without foundation, particularly the traditional contention of French men that their naturally larger sexual appetites give them grounds to fool around more. French women, it turns out, could make the same argument...
...argument for engaging scientific elites is that they are often socially integrated with other elites in the country and can influence them, he says, just as Russian physicists are believed to have helped shape the thinking of former Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev...