Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theory--the Universitymakes sure that women are included on the lists ofcandidates for senior jobs, but requires nospecial consideration for the women candidates. Asmore women gain prominence in the outside academicworld, they will make up a larger percentage ofsearch lists and, eventually, the Faculty,according to the administration's argument...
Another Oscar prospect, Lasse Hallstrom's hit Swedish comedy My Life as a Dog, teaches that pubescence is a messy uphill battle. And now two French films arrive to clinch the argument that in Europe, childhood is a daunting entrance exam for premature adulthood. Their plot is archetypal: a boy is sent away from home for a wrenching rite of passage. In Jean-Loup Hubert's The Grand Highway, the lad learns conventional wisdom, and the film evokes familiar smiles and tears. In Louis Malle's Au Revoir les Enfants, the Nazi occupation of France triggers a boy's crisis...
...drop last week that if pressed he could conceive of running for President during his summer vacation, since Albany virtually shuts down from July to October. He's not saying he would run for President during his summer vacation, mind you, just that he "could construct a lawyer's argument" (he is a lawyer, after all) for running should a deadlocked convention turn to him. You could say, he explained, "I just took a vacation to run for President, so who did I hurt...
...individual Great Power's economic rise and fall and its growth and decline as an important military power (or world empire)." If all he were saying is that richer nations tend to win wars, then there would be very little reason for anyone to read further. But Kennedy's argument is more supple than it at first appears. A nation's strength, both in its commerce and on the battlefield, must be measured against that of its rivals and enemies: "So far as the international system is concerned, wealth and power, or economic strength and military strength, are always relative...
...Committee also argues that Asian-Americans do not meet the criteria for diversity. This argument is the most suspect, since Asian Americans admitted here have shown that they can lead publications or play varsity sports in addition to becoming Marshall scholars. But all the statistics show that Asians are overrepresented in sciencerelated fields. If the Committee seeks a diverse student body and not just one filled with scientists, then it should reject those candidates that have nothing else to offer. If all caucasians were interested solely in the Classics, the Committee should not accept them all either...