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“Competitive and Slightly Unhinged”: Why college debaters dominate Washington’s political scene
October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
“Competitive and Slightly Unhinged”: Why college debaters dominate Washington’s political scene By Sophie Gilbert from Washingtonian Magazine, November 2009, pp. 66-67 © 2009 Washingtonian Magazine, Inc.; used by permission. When Politico ran a front-page story about Austan Goolsbee, the headline was DEBATE CHAMP GOES POPULIST FOR OBAMA’S PLAN. The story noted how “silver-tongued” Goolsbee–recently appointed [...]
