Recent Exercises

  • Home in Queens

    I made it back to the U.S. safely, and can’t imagine how the time went by so quickly. Thanks to everyone in the JDA and NCA for making…

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  • Last Days in Japan

    The American Professor Llano and the Japanese Professor Yano, President of the Japan Debate Association. Some people can’t handle the “Double Llanos.” Things have been happening so quickly…

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  • ESU-J Tournament Champ!

    Mr. Isao Ayabe, half of team “Mind the Gap” who won the ESU-J tournament yesterday. Yesterday was fantastic. We spent most of the day at Chuo University in…

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  • Argument Culture (like bacteria?)

    There was an interesting piece by Roger Ebert today in the Sun-Times comparing Bill O`Reilly to Charles Coughlin, and using some scholarly research as support. Ebert, I didn’t…

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  • Sapporo High School Debate

    This is a fantastic city. Perfect size, very livable, and the temperature is just cool enough that you might want a sweatshirt in the evening. But if that…

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  • A visit to Toastmaster’s Club

    We returned to Tokyo energized from our encounters and debates, but physically exhausted. A day off was in order, and we spent it shopping in Akihabara district for…

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