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...example: “My roommate, he’s on mock trial and did debate in high school. He told me, very cryptically, [short laugh] to ask you about something called the Emory Switch and if Harvard uses any special tactics...

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

...Indiana bureaucrat seeking to build a park on an abandoned development site occupied by a giant pit. (Throwing stimulus money into a literal hole in the ground left behind by the real estate bust: it's the official sitcom of the Great Recession.) And Modern Family, a hilarious new mock-doc on ABC, adapts the style to domestic comedy. When one half of a gay couple blames his weight gain on a nesting instinct spurred by their adoption of a baby, the scene cuts to night-vision-camera footage of him binge-eating in the pantry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Laugh Track Required: The Comeback of the Sitcom | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...jury was partially composed of members from the Harvard Mock Trial team and mock trial teams in the local community. According to Chauvet, it provided valuable exposure to other means of approaching simulated jury trials...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HLS Holds Simulated Trials Advocacy | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...played with gusto by Paul Schneider (“Lars and the Real Girl”), disapproves of the relationship between Keats and Brawne and actively attempts to dissuade his friend from pursuing her. This conflict climaxes in a heated argument between the three parties after Brown delivers a mock valentine to Brawne.Had Campion chosen to focus solely on this triangular relationship, perhaps elaborating on the reasons why Brown was so staunchly opposed to his friend’s relationship, she could have composed an engaging romance. However, almost directly following the aforementioned argument, the primary source of conflict clumsily...

Author: By Bram A. Strochlic, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bright Star | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...city's 138 sq. mi., yielding a landscape that bears a closer relation to a postapocalyptic nightmare than to the prosperous and muscular place I remember. The City of Homeowners, some called it, a city with endless miles of owner-occupied bungalows and half-capes and modest mock Tudors that were the respectable legacy of five decades of the auto industry's primacy in the American economy and Detroiters' naive faith that the industry would never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit: The Death — and Possible Life — of a Great City | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

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