Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other students." The language is confusing; so much so that while working our way through the article we felt akin to the minotaur attempting to find his way out of the Cretan labyrinth of King Minos. In any case, Klitgaard seems to contradict his primary assumption, thus invalidating his argument before he even begins...
...argument commonly used against establishing a Third World center says minorities will not be assimilated into the mainstream if they are encouraged to congregate. In response, Ponder says, "Any university has to perpetrate an environment conducive to students' well-being and comfort; only then will the minority student be better able to share himself and be well integrated...
...public for inspection. Wrote Judge Jon Newman: "We do not believe the public at large must be sanitized as if they all would become jurors in the remaining Abscam trials." Myers appealed, arguing that broadcasting the tapes would "severely undermine" his appeal. But the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his argument last week...
Even if the Government wins its argument in the Supreme Court, the passage of time has created formidable obstacles. Simply showing that an immigrant was, say, a camp guard and that he later concealed that fact means locating survivors of the camp and hoping they can identify that person after 35 or 40 years have passed. The Justice Department had to go to Israel to find the six witnesses against Fedorenko, and the Philadelphia trial of another suspected war criminal is taking place in part because department lawyers located and video-taped nine Soviet witnesses in the Ukraine...
...candidates do not serve the presidency, and most votes for one will be votes cast against the others. Surely, the voters are reminded, there are gradations of evil. Surely, many reason, Carter is worth supporting, if only to keep Reagan away from the button and the Supreme Court. The argument is sound in some ways; Carter is perceptibly less unnerving than Reagan. But the difference between the men is not large enough to warrant support of Carter. If the incumbent represented the spirit of the Democratic Party, if he stood even in name for progressive social and economic policies, then...