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This is off-topic debate. Conventional scholastic debating in the U S. has been on-topic, an achingly serious match that is less an extracurricular pastime than a kind of secular self-mortification. On-topic debaters all over the country argue a single consequential issue for a year. Off-topic...
Democracy and Distrust did more for Ely than thrust him into the legal limelight. It also prompted Stanford Law School in December to appoint the 42-year-old Ely its next dean. His recent scholastic credentials, in fact, were so overpowering that the vote of Stanford's appointments committee was...
It's tempting to throw Jay Cantor's collection of essays. The Space Between: Literature and Politics, into the same category, to classify this faintly off putting, heavily scholastic series of musings on literature and politics as the author's answer to nagging self-doubt. And, the book does carry...
Unfortunately, Harvard just bit off more than they could chew. The Crimson was forced to go up against Wilkes right after the first string wrestled Nebraska. Although the wrestlers won only two individual matches against the Big Red. the meet was highlighted by some outstanding wrestling by the Harvard team...
California is not the only state system toughening up its entrance requirements. Next fall Florida State University will demand that freshmen graduate from high school with a 2.5 grade-point average (as compared with 2.0 now) and score a total of 950 (compared with 800) on the combined math and...