Word: argumentive
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...There is not an affirmative action policy for gender.”The call for extending affirmative action to women was most recently renewed in 2003. That year, the portion of women editors fell to 25 percent—the lowest level in a decade. But the argument for gender-based affirmative action gained little traction. Beneficial Professor of Law Charles Fried said at the time that “this seems to be a manufactured issue,” citing the fact that a number of the Review’s recent presidents had been women. Law School Dean...
...Soon after publishing this column, in which I raked Kuhls through the fire for dismissing the athletic scholarship argument with the overly simplistic comment that “we don’t admit retards at my school,” I received a backlash of negative responses from our Ivy brethren in the boonies of upstate New York...
...mails consisted of glowing recommendations of how great a person Kuhls was and how fun he was to hang around with. If I only knew how cool he was, they continued, I never would have called him out like that. And so I apologize to Mr. Kuhls. Your argument was idiotic. But some people think you’re really swell...
...says.Barrett remembers getting into good-natured debates about U.S. involvement in Latin America. She “was probably, at that time, a little to my left politically,” he recalls. “She was definitely someone who was not afraid to get into an argument.”‘THEY CAN’T ALL BE BAD’After graduation, she interned at The Washington Post for three months, where she had the opportunity to write stories about the air traffic control strike of 1981. She then took a reporting position...
...reason the Europeans and others have been so insistent on the U.S. joining the talks is that security guarantees will be central to any eventual deal. European diplomats believe that as long as Iran fears attack by the U.S., hawks in Tehran will have an argument for pursuing a nuclear deterrent. But the U.S. won't offer Iran security guarantees without assurances from Iran on such issues as terrorism. So any negotiations over the nuclear issue would force Washington and Tehran to confront their differences over a number of other issues. The two nations are unlikely ever to kiss...