Word: argument
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THIS crude effort to discredit Rawlsian justice is only laughable. More worrisome is the fact that Ec 10 purports to present Rawls' view without mentioning that it has conveniently omitted important parts of the argument. By using only a choice few of Rawls' basic suppositions, Ec 10 arrives at policy choices that Rawls and most other thinking people would...
Finally, Larew's assumption that Israeli democracy is eroding has no support. If he wants to say that the treatment of West Bank Palestinians is "undemocratic," then I think he would get little argument from any side; the West Bank is under military occupation--a consequence of Jordan's unsuccessful surprise attack during the Six Day War--and as a result does not even pretend to live under the same rules as the Israeli democracy. Many right-wing Israelis would indeed like to rectify this situation by annexing the territories and including the Palestinians in the state, a solution...
...pride argument is perverse," saidHarrison. "I dare you to find any case where thequalifications of a Black candidate have beenoverestimated...We take pride in, once given theopportunity, proving ourselves...
...staff's argument for the national-affiliation rule is tenuous at best. It contends that the University will lack clout in dealing with nationally-affiliated student groups. But what kind of influence does Harvard need over these organizations...
...private communication, addressed to me and placed in my locked mailbox. For me, this makes the draft notice an issue about privacy. Had there been a poster on a wall, or a note slipped under my door, or a rally in my dining hall, I would have no argument. But when my privacy is involved, my position on the El Salvador issue becomes irrelevant. What if they had sent me a letter telling me that my mother had been killed by Salvadoran terrorists? Should I have boarded the next plane home...