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...stir and made it a legitimate news story. Why? How could you? Allegations that are false when told to a handful of people do not become true when told to a thousand. And they become even more malicious. “All the news that is fit to print”—it is the last part of that slogan that was forgotten here...

Author: By David Gergen | Title: LETTERS—EC GRAD STUDENT E-MAILS | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

Policy debate is structured around two-person teams. One person does mostly affirmative, one mostly negative. Everybody debates on the same issue all year, so eventually the arguments are tailored to fit a certain team’s style. Tournaments are long and intense. The first round is on Saturday at 8 a.m. or 8:30. One round of debate can take around 2.5 hours with four debates a day. This happens for two days, while you compile a record and, at some point, break for lunch. The third day is elimination rounds, where the top 32 teams compete...

Author: By Mark J. Chiusano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Date With Debate | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Mark J. Chiusano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Date With Debate | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...moral high ground to be able to extract profit from a monopoly sport that routinely exploits its criminally inclined workforce leaves me unmoved. The NFL is just another big business - why should it be anything less - only with a huge amount of ego attached to it. Rush should fit in quite well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Rush Limbaugh Belongs in the NFL | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

...made payments to the accused because firstly we were friends and I needed him in my business deals," Agliotti testified. At times, his testimony verged on farce, such as when he described going on a shopping trip with Selebi to buy a pair of small, broad shoes that might fit the peculiarly shaped feet of Mbeki, who had appointed Selebi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corruption Trial Marks Major Test for South Africa | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

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