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When I talked to the captain of the team, senior Geoff A. Smith ’10, he wore a green and white polo and talked with his hands. He seemed to be consciously slowing down his speech patterns so that I could perfectly understand him. He told me that this year, the team would be debating the following issue, as determined by the Cross Examination Debate Association, at all of its tournaments (he recited it from memory and I had to replay it three times on my recorder just to get it right): “The United States...
They were debate partners at Harvard when King was a senior and Bredehoft was a junior, and that year, in 1979, they won the National Debate Tournament. King was writing to me as he was traveling to Philadelphia, and he took a break during the flight. When he got back to the computer he said, “I see that in the interim John has responded, and I will resist reading.” At times, in the middle of their narratives, they would ask questions of each other, checking that their facts were accurate...
Maybank, an Enviromental Science and Public Policy concentrator, and Wilson, a Romance Languages and Literatures concentrator, met in a Portuguese class (“Of all things,” Maybank says). Though Maybank was a senior and Wilson was a sophomore, both lived in Lowell. “I loved my time at Harvard,” Maybank says. “I had a great social experience here, a great social life, and then did a little bit of homework too along the way.” That bit of homework led Maybank to a finance...
...spent quite a bit of time reflecting on whether and how my life would have been different if I had traded in my hours in lab and long nights perfecting problem sets to fit in with any given social set. Now, as a senior, I realize that it certainly would be different, but probably not for the better...
...occasional gaffes. He is often condemned by progressives for not calling Republicans' bluffs on threatened filibusters and rarely, if ever, using his 60-seat majority to ram through legislation. "I'm not so sure we have very many sticks available to us," says Jim Manley, a senior adviser to Reid. Reid is "an expert at the gentle art of persuasion. The members of his caucus see him as an honest broker and a straight shooter...