Word: argumentive
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There's nothing russians love more than a good argument. After the writer Sergei Aksakov bought the Abramtsevo country estate in 1843, it soon grew into an informal club for Slavophiles?intellectual gentry who demanded that Russia shun Western capitalism and return to her Slavic origins. But Aksakov, best known for his trilogy, A Russian Gentleman, extended his hospitality to pro-Western thinkers too, ensuring lively debates involving such literary luminaries as Fathers and Sons author Ivan Turgenev and writer Alexander Gertsen. The writer Nikolai Gogol, whose works reflected Russia's vagaries and antagonisms, was a regular participant...
...with such logic?" said Bohr. Wolpert, who took the title of his book from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, in which the White Queen explains to Alice that believing in impossible things is simply a matter of practice, seems happy to agree. More likely to start an argument is the author's novel proposition that the imperative to link cause and effect derived directly from our earliest hominid ancestors' discovery of tools as many as 2 million years ago. The ability to fashion a flint spear, he speculates, promoted a kind of causal thinking that was beyond other...
...argument is getting stronger, however, that this is a short-sighted bargain for the U.S. Beyond the terrorism risks, Washington's failure to control the nation's borders has a painful impact on workers at the bottom of the ladder and, increasingly, those further up the income scale. The system holds down the pay of American workers and rewards the illegals and the businesses that hire them. It breeds anger and resentment among citizens who can't understand why illegal aliens often receive government-funded health care, education benefits and subsidized housing. In border communities, the masses of incoming illegals...
Gossage really misfires with his argument that young writers are keeping him out of the Hall. A writer must cover baseball for 10 consecutive years before receiving a vote. So they're not as wet as Gossage suggests. The youngest of the Hall of Fame voters are old enough to have seen Gossage play...
...TIME: There's an argument brewing over Canada's latest military mission to Afghanistan. Any thoughts...