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...parliamentary debate consists of two teams, one government team and an opposition team. The government team proposes the topic 15 minutes before the debate, and the opposition team must rebut the proposal without any preparation...

Author: By India F. Landrigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Articulate Arguers Accrue Accolades | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

...Harvard students said they had no prior knowledge of the topic...

Author: By India F. Landrigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Articulate Arguers Accrue Accolades | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

...will eventually sit down, do a little research or a bit of critical thinking, and hammer it out. (This syndrome does not apply to those who plagiarize their academic work; for them, self-worth is a far more serious problem.) Sometimes the student is inspired by the topic to do a good job; other times, whether because of a lack of interest or a lack of time, the paper turns out worse than the student could have made it. But those who suffer from This Paper Sucks will always tell anyone who asks about their progress on the assignment that...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Out of Our Hands | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

...stop bench on Wilshire Boulevard. Oprah featured it and Bohnett on her TV show to illustrate the dubious pleasures of Web snooping. When crowds flocked to the site, Bohnett was ready. He put on his camera page links to "neighborhoods" that were really just more Web pages arranged by topic (such as sports, finance, entertainment). A few months later, he began giving away the home-page real estate, keyed to the same interest groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Levittown On The Web | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...character are so sharp as to be repulsive. Her prattling naivete as subtly disturbing as a toddler playing with a loaded handgun, Harlan gabs about everything from slavery to the aesthetic of rock-star fashion with the same maddening equanimity, made worse by her mingling of each topic's catch-phrases with the provincialism of her exaggerated Southern accent...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Of Turtles and Women: Jones' `The Healing' Presents a Jolting Tale | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

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