Word: wente
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...this summer, and you've witnessed essentially the entire history of hip-hop. What stands out? When I first heard hip-hop, in 1976, there were maybe only 500 people that could do it. Now you got 5 million people. First it was about partying and fun. Then it went to a way to express oneself without having to physically express it. Then after a while, hip-hop became more socially conscious. Then it went to the celebrity [phase]. And now we're in a state where it's unbalanced. A lot of artists don't necessarily have the same...
...night went much better than I expected. While the video looked flawless, my daughters quickly lost interest in thirtysomething's nattering, self-obsessed yuppies and started to think about other tricks the Optoma could perform. Soon we had YouTube up there, and at about the time my beloved slunk off to bed, I screened my idea of a family movie: The Big Lebowski. Even Otto woke up for that...
...came from a long line of debaters, documented back to his grandfather who won a two volume history of the French Revolution for winning the LaHaye Seminary’s debating prize in April of 1899. Bredehoft debated successfully for Spellman High School in the Bronx, where Justice Sotomayor went, although they didn’t overlap...
...went to the archives and found names of old debaters. I sent out some e-mails. The archives have a folder for nearly everything, including Policy Debate. There were fliers from the ’50s advertising debates on nuclear weapons (again!), Richard Nixon as president, the abolition of the House Un-American Activities Committee, the treatment of the Irish by the British government. There were fraying newspapers mentioning old national champions. There was even a form sent by the secretary of the Debate Council, in 1947, to other universities for the purpose of organizing the next year?...
...best: “Dallas was another thing altogether—Dallas is Dallas, and there is no way around it.” He continues: “He was the first coach of Harvard Debate for many years not to have been a Harvard debater (he went to Georgetown, then Harvard Law). When I first met him in the mid-1970s, he was partial to wearing one-piece pastel jumpsuits and had light orange hair down to his knees. Incongruously, when he spoke it was in one of the most pronounced West Texas drawls ever heard (he comes...