Word: argument
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That is a convincing argument for getting better judges to begin with. In about half the states, most judges are elected. The rationale has always been that voters should have a say in choosing the people who resolve their disputes and enforce public law. But most voters do not know much about the candidates for whom they are voting. A Texas poll in 1976 found that only 2% could even remember the names of the county judges on the ballot. A campaign for office is an inexact gauge of how a judge will behave if elected. New York Court...
After three weeks of argument, U.S. District Judge Charles W. Joiner concluded that the school had not been as sympathetic as it should have been. In a 43-page opinion that is expected to serve as a precedent for other legal challenges, Joiner provided the first judicial acknowledgment that black English is a distinct dialect, not just slovenly talk, and ordered the Ann Arbor school district to prepare a plan for teaching black English speakers. Last week the district announced a $42,000 special program. All teachers at the King school will now be required to take "sensitivity courses...
...beauty of LeBoutillier's writing and the logic of his argument about Harvard's radical bent can be summed up in one passage. John is graduating from Harvard...
Admittedly, this is not a complete exposition of Lamont's argument. But that argument seems inherently worthless because it is not, as touted, "first hand," but secondhand, the result of "more than 650 interviews." Throughout, Lamont comes across as an interloper, a strange wanderer on the outside looking in. The punch line goes, "I was there--I know." Well, Lamont wasn't there, and it results in some embarrassing misperceptions. Lamont repeatedly yaps about the "crush in the libraries." What crush? The only crush I've ever seen at Harvard is in Q-world's pinball arcade during reading period...
Wriston's argument overlooks that, rightly or wrongly, many Americans believe that the free market no longer is really free, that in fact it is manipulated not only by Government but also by large private corporations. Also, he ignores that in the battle against inflation, people seem quite willing to sacrifice at least some of their individual liberty. But the danger is that as inflation roars on, they may be willing to sacrifice so much more of it that the Republic could become a totally different kind of society. For Wriston is quite right when he argues that economic...