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• 07.02.09
  Ask Cruz XXII — Champions Edition, Part I
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  NEW YORK, N.Y. — After a very long hiatus — and after several fits and starts — “Ask Cruz” returns as a regular feature here on Victory Briefs Daily. I’ve missed the opportunity to answer your questions, and I hope you’ll send some my way. In each installment of “Ask Cruz,” I answer questions about debate trivia. You may post your questions in the comments section, or you may shoot me an e-mail. It’s been a while, but I’m back in gear to do a regular column, so please do submit those questions. Marc Wallach asks, “When was the last time ...
  
  
• 07.02.09
  Across America: Ridge High School
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  BASKING RIDGE, N.J. — “Across America” highlights squads across our country that compete in Lincoln-Douglas debate — local circuit, regional circuit, national circuit — and other forensic events. Dave Yastremski, the director of the University School Forensics Team, agreed to be interviewed for the second installment of “Across America.” FOUNDED: 1967 FOUNDERS: “Per our yearbooks, Ridge had a forensics team from 1967-1971 with two different advisors: McHugh and Vogel. As for the current program, I started the current version program in 1998. At that time, we had five students — four interpers and one extemper — today we had 83 ...
  
  
• 07.02.09
  PF 2009 Part 2
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  I have a new project that’s going to be keeping me busy, and away from the debate universe, for a bit of the summer, so forgive me if entries become erratic. (Erratic in appearance, that is; they’re already erratic in content.) Feed items will continue as I’ve been doing them, annotated here, and raw (and in greater numbers) on the straight feed itself.Here’s a rule of thumb I propose for Pfffters: Never open your mouth unless there’s a piece of evidence in it. If nothing else separates PF from LD, then let it be this (although, of course, there are ...
  
  
• 07.02.09
  FEED: Human rights
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  You probably have heard this by now. India un-bans being homosexual.India’s Ministry of Home Affairs had opposed changes to the law on grounds that decriminalizing homosexual conduct would “open the floodgates of delinquent behavior.” But on Wednesday, Home Minister P. Chidambaram indicated that the government might have “new thinking” on the issue. More...
  
  
• 07.02.09
  FEED: Philosophy
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  Which came first, the language or the thought? Understanding language may be the key to understanding human nature, which is why linguistics, even in its most practical facets, is absolutely fascinating to the student of philosophy. This article is long, and well worth your time.Humans communicate with one another using a dazzling array of languages, each differing from the next in innumerable ways. Do the languages we speak shape the way we see the world, the way we think, and the way we live our lives? Do people who speak different languages think differently simply because they speak different languages? ...
  
  
• 07.02.09
  FEED: Human rights
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  As always, PAP makes you think.If you care about human rights, it’s extremely important to measure the level of protection of human rights in different countries, as well as the level of progress or deterioration. Measurement in the social sciences is always tricky; we’re dealing with human behavior and not with sizes, volumes, speeds etc. However, measuring human rights is especially difficult...In order to measure whether countries respect human rights, one already needs respect for human rights. More...
  
  
• 07.02.09
  FEED: Debate
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  I like articles that simply come out and support high school debate as an academic tool. This one is from the Chicago Tribune via Snider.Pickert, 17, a recent graduate, isn't sure where he will go to college but knows his research and study habits honed by debating will help him to succeed. "The things you learn in debate spill over," Pickert said.Research indicates Pickert is likely right. 2004 University of Missouri study found that debating skills have a positive effect on academic performance. And researchers at the University of Michigan are looking at the impact on academics. More...
  
  
• 07.02.09
  Support Iraq Debate
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  Hello supporters of debating.I am working with some Iraq debaters to promote debating in Iraq. I feela special burden to assist our brave brothers and sister in Iraq to tryand improve their society through debate. It is easy for us to take forgranted the debating communities we have, but we should not forget aboutothers for which it is not so easy.The spearhead for this is Muhammad Duhoki who has
  
  
• 07.02.09
  Iraq Debate Emerges Into Debating World
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  From http://www.iraqdebate.org/For the First time, A Debate Team represented Iraq. Its Iraq Debate Team which participated successfully in a workshop and followed by moving to Qatar to have a series of workshops to debate, judge and observe then participating in Qatar National Universities Debate Championships and Qatar National Schools Debate Championships in April 2009.In Qatar National
  
  
• 07.02.09
  World Schools Debate Academy About to Begin
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  WORLDS SCHOOLS DEBATE ACADEMY AND TOURNAMENT Zreče, Slovenia, 5th – 12th July 2009 Za in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga Slovenia, www.zainproti.com and World Debate Institute, USA, debate.uvm.edu kindly invite you to participate at the International Worlds Schools Debate Academy and Tournament Zreče Open, 5th – 12th July 2009. The Academy is divided in two parts. The training part starts on
  
  

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