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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...
...Freedom this year - after his work in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina drove home the need for "embedding health care more deeply in communities." Says Miami Gardens Mayor Shirley Gibson: "I am very hopeful that this will change not only the dynamics of accessibility, but nurture physicians who understand how these communities' socioeconomic cultures affect patient behavior...
What would you say to a recent journalism graduate who's watching newspapers and magazines fold left and right? I'd say go for it. Keep your standards high. Understand that your role is to seek the truth, wherever it leads...
...understand why some NFL players are disinclined to work for Rush Limbaugh, should he become a co-owner of the St. Louis Rams. The conservative yakmonster has openly wished for the nation's first black President to fail - which won't endear him to a league dominated by black athletes who probably don't share that sentiment about President Obama. Nor does the country that elected him. And as a commentator for ESPN in 2003, Limbaugh made a racist remark that quickly got him benched: he disparaged Donovan McNabb, arguing that the Philadelphia Eagles QB got higher marks than deserved...
...think the Nobel Peace Prize was premature. I just don't understand. If there's an award for a person doing good mood music, sure. I'd definitely give Obama two of them. But I thought the Nobel Prize was for great achievements, not just the Peace Prize but in science and literature. I could imagine going in front of the Nobel Committee and saying 'Listen. I've a great idea and I'm going to invent it in two years' time. Will you give me the award?' It doesn't make any sense. In fairness...