Word: arguments
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...mainstream argument for legalization is pragmatic: the war against drugs has failed, and the cost to society of keeping them illegal is greater than the cost of learning to live with them. Out at the fringes of respectability is the libertarian argument: people have the right to control their own lives, even to wreck their own lives, if that is their choice. Unmentioned as a reason for legalizing drugs, though widely believed and acted on as a practical matter by most Americans, is what might be called the Dionysian argument. Look, it says, the desire for an occasional artificial escape...
...search the house, found cocaine and hashish inside, and arrested Greenwood. He protested the original warrantless investigation of his trash bags, claiming it violated the Fourth Amendment ban against unreasonable searches and seizures. Two California courts agreed with Greenwood, but last week the highest court resoundingly rejected his argument...
Warren's fundamental argument, or rather, assumption, is that because contributions to the Senior Gift do not directly offset the use of University endowment interest, even those who disagree with University endowment policy can in good conscience support the Senior Gift. This almost sounds reasonable, until you hold it up next to the following parallel argument: the South African government determines what part of its annual budget will be spent buying police weapons, housing political prisoners, and doing other unsavory deeds, without reference to those tax dollars collected specifically from American companies doing business in South Africa. Therefore, American companies...
...gleans from Joe Garagiola, a former catcher himself, in this chapter is that Johnny Bench, without a doubt the greatest catcher of his time, probably set back the art of catching, on account of his own great skills. Only Bench, with his extraordinarily quick release and balance, Angell's argument goes, could get away with catching the pitch one-handed, which normally catchers are taught not to do so that their throwing hand is on the ball if a Rickey Henderson or Vince Coleman tries for second base...
Some are calling it a new twist on the old trial strategy of blaming the victim. "The she-asked-for-it defense doesn't work anymore," says Harvard University Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. "So now we're hearing she demanded it." The first use of that argument may have been in the trial last year in St. Louis County, Mo., of Dennis Bulloch, who faced murder charges in the death of his wife. Julia Bulloch's body, bound to a chair with adhesive tape, had been found in the burned remains of the couple's garage, which Bulloch admitted torching...