Word: argumentatively
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ELTIS: They are not as contradictory as they first appear. Freedom from restraints for one individual may well result in slavery for another if there is an imbalance of power between the two individuals. The argument in the first and last chapters of the book is that Western definitions of freedom placed a greater emphasis on the rights of the individual versus the rights of the group than existed anywhere else in the world, and that this tendency was carried furthest in north-west Europe. The English colonies in the Americas were subject to weaker controls on the part...
According to Raskin, the CPD's argument for excluding candidates who are not drawing 15 percent in national polls is that the commission is not "in the business of jumpstarting third-party candidacies...
...Even if the violence has amplified Arafat's argument that his people's fierce religious passions preclude him from compromising on his demand for sovereignty over Jerusalem's Islamic holy sites, he ultimately shares Barak's interest in restoring calm. After all, the violence shifts the center of gravity in Palestinian politics toward Hamas and other hard-line factions that are now openly challenging not only the peace process but Arafat's right to lead. Already, whatever wiggle room the Palestinian leader may have had to find compromise on Jerusalem may have been narrowed, with the entire Arab world - including...
...argument with some merit: The American electorate must be trusted to elect a president - so why not trust us to rip our collective gaze from the national pastime to the dry necessity of a debate? But while nobody in America wants to make debate avoidance a federal crime, there is surely something inherently embarrassing about living in a country where two major networks choose to ignore what can safely be called a major political event...
...officially investigates the issues raised in Tierney's book. Barbara Johnston, human-rights chair of the American Anthropological Association, finds Tierney's "90 interviews, Freedom of Information Act documents, audiotapes from film outtakes" significant. But she reaches no conclusion. "There is extensive documentation but a lot of room for argument," she says. "If even 10% of these allegations are valid, we must take a good look...