Word: assertive
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...Hernandez—who herself will graduate with a certificate from the Rockefeller Center—continues to assert the academic importance of studying Latino culture and history as a distinct field...
...point made by Krauthammer is patently absurd. Of course the impact of presidential policies and initiatives is far more subtle and complex than is often depicted in campaign rhetoric. But to assert that the economy is beyond a President's control is to ignore the wide-reaching effects of such fiscal policies as tax cuts and the setting of interest rates-which, even when they aren't enacted directly by the President, are introduced by his supporters. Krauthammer's view also ignores the blatant effect of government programs and spending on the economy. Budgets are a zero-sum game...
...Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies is the latest attempt to solve the puzzle of Islamic rage-and it is possibly the most provocative. Its authors, Ian Buruma, a respected commentator on Asian affairs, and Avishai Margalit, a professor of philosophy at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, assert that the ideas inspiring bin Laden and his fellow terrorists originally sprang from the West...
...detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba may challenge their captivity in federal court. It's one of three cases on the court's docket this month that strike at a linchpin of the Bush Administration's counterterrorism policy: that a wartime President may assert sweeping executive authority in the interest of national security. By late June, the court may issue key rulings on separation-of-powers issues, such as whether U.S. citizens can be locked up indefinitely without court review if the Pentagon deems them "enemy combatants." But the Justices may have already wielded some influence...
...movie that they loathe, notice a critical consensus surrounding it and redirect their animosity towards the “out-of-touch” critics. The critics will respond in kind with an admonition of the masses’ susceptibility to Big Hollywood, making blunt attempts to simultaneously assert and conceal their claims to intellectual superiority...