Word: argumentive
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...particularly relevant as the Pentagon is in the middle of rewriting the Army Field Manual governing the treatment of prisoners. The Administration has maintained that the guidelines for handing detainees don't have to be in line with Common Article 3, but the Court has just made that argument much more difficult to make...
...make the argument, though, that originality online--as on TV--isn't always the best business. Disney, for example, has resisted doing original Web video for ABC and the Disney Channel, but it's had huge success airing online reruns. Besides the popularity of Lost online, the Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack and Cody started getting its best TV ratings ever after airing episodes online. "This validates what we already knew: that broadband does not take away from television," says Disney--ABC Television Group president Anne Sweeney...
...Enron Verdicts I appreciated the viewpoint column on the Enron verdicts by the company's whistle-blower, Sherron Watkins [June 5]. I agree with her argument that humility is a basic ingredient of a spiritual life. No matter how often he invokes Scripture, Enron's founder, Ken Lay, will never learn that stealing is wrong until he finds some of that elusive characteristic. But there is hope: some people learn that valuable lesson in prison. Gary Roe Santa Cruz, California...
...says Galia Golan, Professor of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, "but how would they get out?" Golan believes that Defense Minister Peretz, leader of the Labor Party, sees a negotiated political solution as the only chance for long-term stability. That's a difficult argument to sustain in the current climate of hostility, in which violence is escalating. While Shalit's family waits nervously to learn of his fate, Israelis and Palestinians are wondering whether they are nearing the brink - or already past...
Ironically, the authors began their work deeply skeptical about my argument. To their credit, when the unexpected results came back, they scratched their heads, kicked the tires really hard to ensure there was no mistake and last week reported their findings in a paper aptly called "Social Isolation in America...