Word: argumentative
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TECH, others say, will take up all of a student's time; it will encourage full-time participation in what should only be a part-time activity. Computer science and Internet projects, this argument goes, are 24/7 and not compatible with class. This line of reasoning stops at the office of The Crimson president, the Let's Go publishing director, certain sports teams' captains, the HSA and Advocate presidents, the head of PBHA and dozens of other campus heroes. We are not averse to full-time projects as evidenced by the wealth of them on campus. So what...
Lots, the argument goes, but is at a loss to say exactly how. There are questions of priority and direction, questions of definition and allocation, and some very important questions about the role of a university in business and society. But the deepest question is also the most simple: a worry that motives and outcomes are not clearly defined, in other words, a mistrust of what is new. This mistrust is not entirely unfounded, but it is extremely misleading...
...proper counter-argument recognizes that the new is precisely the place where careful study can make the most difference. If knowledge is power, then wider dissemination of knowledge is the only counter to misuse. We need ways to understand and parse newness, not to condemn it out of hand...
...Portuguese colonialists. At 16 he ran away from his studies at a Catholic seminary and wound up in Dili, teaching Portuguese at a Chinese school and working as a government surveyor. He was fired when, in his first act of defiance, he threatened to punch his boss in an argument over racial discrimination by East Timor's Portuguese overlords...
...Childless adults, as she represents them, are mature, sensible--and exquisitely patient. Therein lies the chief weakness of this provocative book: a bifurcation of the human race into the selfish and the selfless, the latter being those without children. The dichotomy is so sharp as to undermine Burkett's argument that pervasive pro-family policies in government and industry unfairly profit parents at the expense of the childless...