PUTIN: US WAR ON IRAQ IS "SERIOUS POLITICAL MISTAKE"

Xinhua News Agency;  March 20, 2003 ;     8 words ...PUTIN: US WAR ON IRAQ IS "SERIOUS POLITICAL MISTAKE"

Letter: The end of statesmanship

The Independent - London;  May 29, 1994 ;     142 words ......delivery ("What became of all the passion?", 22 May). Thus he is well placed to comment on the disappearance of serious political argument along with literary experience, as books become the rotting artefacts of a dying civilisation. The closure...

Almost There

The Washington Post;  March 16, 1991 ;     74 words ......wrote, "Then came the penultimate ugly political argument equating support for the president with...appeasement." Did he mean the "ultimate" ugly political argument? Last year one of your sportswriters wrote...

Fed: PM says Olympics should not be hijacked for politics

AAP General News (Australia);  October 13, 2000 ;     189 words ......wrong to hijack the Sydney Olympic Games and use them as a political argument, Prime Minister John Howard said today. Indigenous leaders...atmospheric to try to win out a particular side of the political argument?" AAP jb/daw/wjf/de KEYWORD: RECONCILE HOWARD 2000 AAP...

COLUMN: Keep religion out of political life

University Wire;  April 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ......contexts. In virtue of what is a political argument -- that is, an attempt to justify...others -- satisfactory? What kinds of political argument are out of bounds, and why? Here...epithets. That's because the point of political argument is to persuade. Persuasion is impossible...

Doctor apologizes for words with policeman

Jerusalem Post;  August 28, 1995 ;     224 words ......apologized yesterday to police for having engaged in a political argument with an officer he was treating in the emergency room...orthopedist had "seriously erred for being dragged into a political argument when he should have been speaking only about his patient...

Bosnian Serb president says police reform deadlock could cause "serious...

AP Worldstream;  September 23, 2005 ;     239 words ......The Bosnian Serb president acknowleged the country faces "serious political instability" if it cannot resolve a deadlock caused by...cause severe consequences and bring a difficult period, a serious political instability and many problems," Cavic said. The Bosnian...

Japanese leaders' visits to Yasukuni Shrine a serious political matter: FM...

Xinhua News Agency;  November 1, 2005 ;     212 words ...Japanese leaders' visits to Yasukuni Shrine a serious political matter: FM spokeman BEIJING, Nov. 1 (Xinhua...leaders' visits to the Yasukuni Shrine as a "serious" political issue, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman...

Conservative journalist George F. Will to speak in Claremont

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin;  April 17, 2006 ;     41 words ...CLAREMONT - George F. Will, journalist and author, will be lecturing today on "The Political Argument Today" at Claremont McKenna College. He will speak at 6:45 p.m. at the Marian Miner Cooke Athenaeum, 385 E. Eighth St. The event is free and open to the public.

Greg dumbs down the BBC and Alastair rubs his hands

The Spectator;  July 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Is the BBC still interested in serious political coverage? Sian Kevill, a former editor...assault by the director-general on serious political coverage. His main motive is as stated...British public do not at present watch serious political programmes in their millions, that...

Political argument led to punch-up

New Straits Times;  July 20, 2005 ;     257 words ...New Straits Times 07-20-2005 Political argument led to punch-up Edition: Main/Lifestyle KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. - A gathering of nine friends turned ugly when harsh words were exchanged...

Letter: The end of serious political opposition.(Letters)

The Birmingham Post (England);  November 5, 2003 ;     304 words ......Conservative Party, but for the rest of us -now that those 90 Tory MPs, through their dismissal of IDS, have likely ended serious political opposition in Parliament for years to come. At a stroke they will have exchanged, what in IDS seemed a thoroughly decent...

Gorbachev Goals Seen Far From Fruition; Slow Pace of Economic Reforms May...

The Washington Post;  December 3, 1987 ;     557 words ......achieve his most ambitious economic goals for many years, if ever, and the failure to show quicker results could cause him serious political problems, according to a 1,132-page report on the Soviet economy released today by Congress' Joint Economic Committee...

The role of humor in political argument: how "strategery" and "lockboxes"...

Argumentation and Advocacy;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......where humor could potentially act as a valid form o f political argument. Since its inception, the United States political arena...politics itself (Boskin, 1990). Traditional studies of political argument recognize it as a rigid and structured activity reserved...

UNDER THE DOME: ; Serious political campaigning may come down to the wire;...

Charleston Gazette;  September 4, 2000 ;     700+ words ......that Labor Day has arrived and Major League Baseball pennant races hit the stretch run, it's finally time for serious political campaigning. That may seem foolish to candidates who started running for office a year ago but in reality, voters...