He was the only boy to carry a briefcase to school in the eighth grade, and in high school he joined the debate team.
Writer-director Jeffrey Blitz ("Spellbound") isn't going to win any prizes for originality, even if it's true that this plaintive comedy about a stammerer recruited onto the debate team is based on personal experience.
Before long he realized the most frought and time-consuming thing was booking travel for the MIT debate team using Kayak and Expedia and plugging all the data into spreadsheets.
The public debate over which team is better started before the London games when the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant said he thought he and his teammates could beat the 1992 squad.
Adam Goldstein, the 23-year-old Hipmunk co-founder, has been dabbling in travel search since he became the de facto travel agent for his debate team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The issue emerged towards the end of a debate on the prison review team's final report.
Mr. Tenet's point here builds on the book's much-publicized statements that the author never heard the president and his national-security team debate "the imminence of the Iraqi threat, " whether or not it was "wise to go to war" or when the war should start.
MS. PSAKI: Well, the President will spend some time in advance of the debate preparing with his team, as he did last time.
If you watch the video on this page, you can pick out a couple of key moments that have generated much debate inside the research team.
The trip may still be almost two months away but there has been plenty of debate over which style the team will play.
The day in the chamber ends with an adjournment debate on the progress of the Historical Enquiries Team, led by the DUP's Jim Shannon.
The first topic of debate: team ownership.
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This is the annual bang-your-head-against-the-goalpost debate that occurs whenever a high-quality team sprints out of the gate without a loss.
The idea has provoked debate over whether naturalised Scots should be picked for the national team.
After asking numerous questions, the executives were satisfied that they understood the situation, thanked the team for its excellent work, and agreed to debate the decision among themselves.
The incident led to heated debate within the Arsenal defensive ranks and seemed to sting the home team into life.
It not only ended the match against Italian fourth division team Pro Patria, but it also sparked worldwide debate about whether it was the right thing to do.
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Throughout his time in charge White has had to deal with the political pressures connected with the on-going transformation debate, which concerns how to develop a side with more non-white players in the team.
The debate was won hands down by McConnell and Zittrain mostly because they stuck to the topic while the Schneier-Rotenberg team attempted to paint a picture of a power and money grab on the part of the defense-industrial base.
We often debate whether footballers should be role models - and the Iraqi team certainly embrace that responsibility.
Brooklyn's willingness to embrace an NBA team may have been up for debate before the season, but as it turns out, the Nets and the color black suit the borough nicely.
Throughout the campaign, Mr Bush's team has insisted that any debate about Iraq was good for him because it plays to his strength as a war leader in a period of national security threats.
The team should all be able to talk about the potential inconsistencies and debate the overall value of the effort in the larger corporate context.
Uncollected rubbish began to pile up (sometimes in the strangest of places) along with other objects - thanks to an ever-thoughtful production team, who left mattresses and old fridges on the street to prompt a debate about how to legally dispose of them.
The opposition, aware that the popularity of Chuan's team may be falling, will mount a no-confidence debate in Parliament on Jan. 27-28.
There is a big debate in Moroccan football at the moment about the poor state of the game, with the national team disappointing at the African Cup of Nations in Ghana last month.
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