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...Crimson has to be the favorite to take the gold at this year's nationals, held in, of all places, Knoxville. (You can't win `em all. The last three national's sites: Colorado Springs, Florida, and Southern California.) "I think they're the finest debate team in the nation, the finest I've had in my decade of coaching," says Harvard Director of Debate Dallas Perkins, himself a living debate legend...
...reactions of pain and anger, the dismissee must cope with the nearly irresistible urge to whine. That injuring so-and-so will never get away with this: the whole, incriminating story must be told. Usually such narratives are limited in circulation to tolerant friends or impassive bartenders ("Set 'em up, Joe"). But a wider and possibly less sympathetic audience can be sought by those victims outraged and talented enough to write a book...
...weapon's destructive effects: how many millions would be killed, cities destroyed, regions contaminated. There is no way a President could succumb to reflexive nuclear revenge, even if he is surrounded by old cronies who, after a couple of bourbons, suggest it is time to "nuke 'em." From the man who carries "the football," the briefcase containing the launch codes, to the officers who push the buttons, a President must deal with an impersonal and coldly rational chain of command. A comforting irony is that military leaders are not the Strangelovian warriors imagined by many civilians. Those...
...think it's affected the morale of the team," says Cozza. "Certainly it would be better if we didn't have those things in print. But I've told 'em, 'I don't want you looking for other places to put the blame when you're losing...
...probably won't be a classic showdown "I hate to say this," says Scott, saying it anyway, "but we're really not too worried about em...