PHS debate team takes third in tournament
Fosters Daily Democrat
PORTSMOUTH - The New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts end-of-season High School Debate Tournament known as the “Christmas Chlassich” was hosted by Manhattan’s Regis High School on Dec. 19 with 550 students competing from 35 schools. With the online format, the tournament allowed participation from Portsmouth High School and other guest schools from South Carolina and Idaho.
States with mature debate programs (referred to as Forensic) have teams that compete in multiple formats, e.g. Lincoln Douglas, mock Congress (House and Senate), Oral Interpretation and Public Forum. The NH Debate League only has seven participating schools, so Public Forum, in which teams of two debaters argue for or against the resolution topic, is the only option in the state. PHS provided five of the 92 Public Forum teams competing across the novice, junior varsity and varsity teams over the resolution “The United States should
Keeping Score: Duende or not
Published: 12/18/2020 5:55:38 PM
Modified: 12/18/2020 5:55:24 PM
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Back in the day when kids stood on street corners hawking newspapers, Boston sports fans regularly turned to an erudite columnist named George Frazier. Educated at Boston Latin and Harvard, Frazier wrote for the Herald Traveler and the Boston Globe, and later for Esquire and Life magazine.
In Boston he coined the term “duende” for a level of class attained by few people or places. Ted Williams had it, but Stan Musial did not. Celtics center Bill Russell had it, Wilt Chamberlain did not. Nantucket had duende; Martha’s Vineyard did not.
Keeping Score: Duende or not
Published: 12/18/2020 5:55:28 PM
Modified: 12/18/2020 5:55:15 PM
Good morning!
Back in the day when kids stood on street corners hawking newspapers, Boston sports fans regularly turned to an erudite columnist named George Frazier. Educated at Boston Latin and Harvard, Frazier wrote for the Herald Traveler and the Boston Globe, and later for Esquire and Life magazine.
In Boston he coined the term “duende” for a level of class attained by few people or places. Ted Williams had it, but Stan Musial did not. Celtics center Bill Russell had it, Wilt Chamberlain did not. Nantucket had duende; Martha’s Vineyard did not.
During The Winter Of COVID, Kids Miss Out On Mentorship Programs
Jake Harrison (left) and Thomas White (right) as high school freshmen in the Gatey CYO basketball program.
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Kids Miss Out On Mentorship Programs
When you talk to Thomas White at school or look at a college application, heâs simply Thomas.
But if you catch him in Southie, heâs Tommy White. âI mean, in my house, everybody here calls me Thomas. In Southie, especially at basketball and stuff, people usually call me Tommy. And thatâs just the name I was given, he said, with a laugh. White is chronicling his senior year of high school with GBH News as part of our COVID and the Classroom series.
Boston native Annie Tomasini, with a âletting Biden be Bidenâ approach, to be a top staffer in his White House
By Liz Goodwin Globe Staff,Updated December 12, 2020, 2:59 p.m.
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During the toughest moments of the Democratic presidential race
last winter, when neither polls nor primaries were going his way, Joe Biden always had at least one thing to look forward to.
Nearly every day, his traveling chief of staff, West Roxbury native Annie Tomasini, would bring in a close friend or family member to surprise him on the campaign bus or plane. Whether it was his sister, Valerie Biden Owens, one day, a grandchild or two the next, or his former personal aide Fran Person, someone would be there to boost his spirits during the difficult