Word: argumentive
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...joke!" he yells. "They got me. They turned me out," says Combs, shaking his head as he walks away. One night, with 1,300 extras at the Greek Theater at 11 o'clock, Apatow suggests yet another shoot of Brand's rock performance with pyrotechnics. He enlists his favorite argument: "Maybe it'll show up in the DVD extras." (See the top DVDs...
...long ago as 1982, the economist Mancur Olson made the argument, in The Rise and Decline of Nations, that as a democracy matures, special interests grow more entrenched. Their intense dedication to their own specific needs, Olson wrote, often trumps the broader, but less focused, interests of society. And that was before the rise of cable news and talk radio. It was before the utterly corrupting effect of televised advertising on politicians really kicked in - the need to raise money (from interest groups, mostly) and to exercise extreme caution lest one of your votes be used to decapitate...
...There genuinely is some merit in the argument," Rosenbaum said, even while acknowledging that others may have found it "alternative" and "non-traditional...
Since Gertner has closed off this avenue of argument, a verdict of not guilty is "unlikely," she said, given that Tenenbaum has all but admitted to the act of downloading copyrighted material. Instead, their goal will be to convince the jury to minimize any damages Tenenbaum must...
...Twitter. Because nothing spells commitment like 140 characters of lucid, compelling argument, there's a new Tweet Your Senator page on BarackObama.com, the website maintained by the Democratic National Committee. Here, you can log-in and send one of a half a dozen or so prewritten tweets to your state's Senators. And for your trouble, you get to see your picture and tweet pop up on a map of the U.S. Shiny! (Follow TIME on Twitter...