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...Held from Feb. 13-15, the tournament consisted of five sub-tournaments: the policy debate competition, the public forum competition, speech competitions, the Lincoln-Douglas competition, and the Harvard National Student Congress...
...hours from Alaska to partake in this clash of intellects, the competition was a true reflection of the oratory skill of the nation’s best high school students. Seul “Kathy” Ku ’13, who judged the policy debate rounds held at at the Student Organization Center at Hilles, told us that the elimination rounds, in which 32 of the best teams of the competition challenged each other, were “really close...
...election year. This is to be expected," says a Republican Senate leadership aide. "Remember back in 2006 when [former majority leader] Bill Frist held all those votes where he didn't allow amendments on all those politically tough issues like gay marriage, the death tax and late-term abortion? A lot of good it did us - we lost the Senate. Democrats would do well to remember that example." (See pictures of Obama's State of the Union speech...
...incarcerated in Burma. Three days before Tin Oo's release the regime sentenced Burmese-born American citizen and political activist Kyaw Zaw Lwin to three years imprisonment at a time it is supposedly seeking better ties with the U.S., and on Tuesday, a Burmese court sentenced four women who held prayer services for Suu Kyi's release to prison terms with hard labor. "One step forward, one step back is the opposite of a shift," Zawacki said. A report released Tuesday by Amnesty International concurs, documenting stepped-up repression against Burma's ethnic minority groups. "Ethnic minorities play an important...
...pledge failed to uplift the global financial markets, which continued dumping Greek government bonds and pushing the euro down even further. Hopeful to reverse that, euro zone finance ministers held a follow-up meeting on Monday that was intended to show their collective determination to back Athens up. But the ministers seemed instead to belittle the cost-cutting measures that Greece had proposed by putting forth their own plan for the country to cut spending, raise taxes and finance its debt within 30 days...