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...debate creates, a world where the best pairs in the country are known by the combined initials of their last names. I began hearing the letters “PJ” uttered reverently for the first time. PJ said such and such, PJ were invited to a special tournament, PJ almost...
...this world, arguments are as dangerous as radiation and as swift as ballistic missiles, as are the curt phrases that punctuate them. Later, I will hear the story of the 1984 Northwestern Tournament from the man who won it, Jonathan B. Wiener ’84. The other team spoke at length about Cuban refugees intercepted by US patrol boats. Wiener and his partner parried with their own counter-plan, but its significance eluded their opponents. “I guess you missed the boat,” the Harvard team quipped. The audience collapsed in hysterics. It ruined...
Beyond the philosophical implications of his question I had to admit that he was right. I think this was where I threw in my request to go to a tournament so I could see the debate team up close, maybe get to know something. It seemed to be a logical rejoinder...
This was the part where he told me, all in the calmest and most collected voice, that the team had had a Crimson reporter who’d come to a tournament before. He embarrassed the team and they had to spend the next month explaining to other teams how they were not assholes, it was just the reporter who was an asshole. Perkins asked me what my agenda was, and at some point I asked what he was insinuating. When he left, he lifted his straw hat off the table, put it on his head, and said simply...
...Georgia State the weekend before. These were the two whom all the excitement was about. The best Harvard has seen in years. And there was no way I was going to get to see them perform, not after the fiasco of the last reporter to cling along for a tournament...