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...that PJ won again?), to distill from the clothes that people wear (did you see their matching shirts?). So I wrote some e-mails, plied some contacts and started imagining a plane ride to Kentucky, paid for by The Crimson. I’d sit behind the captain and coach, nestled among the younger team members, jotting down exceptionally good quotes, helping to carry the evidence tubs when we departed. At the debates I’d sit in a corner, watch PJ dazzle the audience and their opponents...
...sent the man an e-mail (Hi Mr. Perkins, My name is etc.), and the coach answered quickly and directly: “Sure. Do you want to talk on the phone or in person?” I told him I’d meet him in front of ABP the next morning, and I’d have on a gray Mets...
...next morning I ran out the door fumbling with my tape recorder, forgetting to put on my gray cap. I arrived in front of ABP turning in circles, looking for someone who might look like a debate coach. But it was Perkins who found me. Apparently my hair looked like it fit with an Italian name...
...clowned” Texas. The need for that opening could be found in the first line of the second paragraph, which proclaimed that today, Perkins “is running his own gang of outlaws.” (This earlier writer had no qualms concerning what to call the coach, dropping the confident “Perkins” after the first paragraph and proceeding to rely on the familiar “Dallas?...
...thought this was what Perkins had taken issue with, or maybe the tongue-in-cheek references to drugs. Instead, the coach told me, the problem was the caricatures of the other teams, who were made to look foolish compared to the Harvard debaters...