Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worst rounds," he says, "come when I really believe what I'm saying. You get emotional, irrational." "You need arrogance," adds Kidd, a visiting New Zealander known for his sly bluntness. "You've got to be cocky to throw all this b.s. around." One veteran of the circuit admits that the verbal showboating can engender a vague mistrust of fellow debaters offstage, at parties and in dorm rooms...
...Welfare parasite!" comes the cry from somewhere, and again laughter splatters the debate. The gibes are mostly among friends. "What I truly value about the circuit," says Smith, "is meeting the different people." A quarter of the competitors are women (although only one will finish near the top here). Are there romantic gambols? "What?" asks an incredulous Peter Shearer of Princeton. "You think I just do this for the logic...
...past and find himself for real. He looked first among campus singing groups but soon left to try crew, where he was assessed as something less than Olympic material. The obvious next step? Set design. Within a few months this persistent fellow if it big on the House drama circuit, and his first major production was to have been the annual Law School show...
...find the fast lane. The Coloradan look her speed to the United States Ski Association's Junior Nationals four times. She also deferred entry to Harvard a year, became one of the eight best downhill-ers in the Rockies, and last year competed on the North American Cup circuit with other Olyimpic-class skiers...
...serpents, however, have begun to crawl into northern California's economic Garden of Eden. Though renowned for their liberal personnel policies, some Silicon Valley employers are under attack for their treatment of hourly production workers. Assembling circuit boards or inspecting chips is a tedious dead-end job that has attracted thousands of Mexicans, Filipinos and Vietnamese immigrants. Many earn wages of less than $5 an hour, low by industry standards...