Word: asserting
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...list of all the shortcomings of John McCain, the apparent Republican nominee. These, too, were tired and predictable: he opposes torture, he did not vote for Bush’s tax cuts and he supports “amnesty” for illegal immigrants. This led you to assert that Republicans may be better off voting for Clinton in the same way that Churchill was forced to ally himself with Stalin in order to fight Hitler...
...Committee. Though details are highly classified, his lawyers claim that he and others were tortured and videotaped, charges that Hayden and other CIA officials deny. On Feb. 5, Hayden admitted to Congress that the CIA had used waterboarding on Khaled Sheik Mohammed and two others. The CIA continues to assert that it does not engage in torture...
...think if you look at how Think Secret defended the lawsuit when it was filed,” Ciarelli said, “that reflects very positively on the ability of online journalists to assert their First Amendment rights...
Some mischievous souls in France would say that the difference between our two countries is that nine out of 10 French know who Marceau was, while only one in 10 Americans has heard of Mailer. And others, more mischievous still, would assert that Mailer was better known in Europe than in the U.S. Indeed, Woody Allen, William Klein, Philip Roth, Paul Auster and so many other American creative spirits are bigger draws in this country, with its supposedly moribund culture, than they are in the U.S. No doubt, you will say, this is because our French artists...
...wage war on the rights of individuals and corporations to take part in commerce,” but is Caldwell advocating a society in which commercial exchange of all kinds goes unrestricted? Dines was appealing to consumers of porn—college students in particular—to assert their right to reject a product that is inherently violent. What statistics does Caldwell need to imagine a porn star’s anguish on and off the set? AMARY WIGGIN ‘09 Cambridge, MA December...