Word: claimed
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...Today more than half of San Antonio's 1.1 million residents are Hispanic, and some are up , in arms about the way a new film depicts the famous battle. Alamo -- The Price of Freedom is to run in a giant-screened theater near the fort. Hispanic leaders claim the film demeans the role of nine Tejano (Texas-born Mexican) defenders in the siege. Also "inaccurate and uncalled for," they say, is a scene that shows Mexican soldiers bayoneting Colonel Jim Bowie to death...
...piece is written on a level other than that of the standard opinion/editorial, in which a writer expresses a well-reasoned notion, say, on taxes, fads, modern thought, whatever; thus it would be absurd to say that because the piece presents an arguably humorous tirade, rather than purporting any claim to fact, it should not have been printed. Of course the elderly of South Florida are not literally "baking their brains into blackened rocks;" this is only a graceful turn of phrase...
...haven't heard anything yet from the plaintiffs that would allow them to make a lawful claim for the documents," Miller said yesterday...
However, attorneys for the King estate are trying to prove that the letter does not constitute a legal claim to the documents according to Massachusetts standards. They also maintain that the school has not cared properly for the papers and that several are missing...
SURPRISINGLY OFTEN, those who argue for the perpetuation of Radcliffe's nominal college status don't claim that it benefits undergraduates or helps the University run smoothly. Instead they make the unprincipled argument that Radcliffe would be less appealing to the generosity of older alumnae were its name to change. These alumnae, the argument goes, might give less if it were clear that their donations supported an institution markedly different from the one they remember, one that now focusesed on advanced scholarship rather than primary undergraduate education...