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Author Message   Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 2816 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 03:03 pm:        Baltimore Students Redefine the Rules of Debate Baltimoreans Dayvon Love and Deven Cooper made history this year as the first African Americans to win a national debate championship. Love and Cooper explain how they won the debate by not following the rules. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89427144&ft=1&f=46   Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 12035 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 06:47 pm:        Needless to say, I like the idea of breaking the rules when it comes to a debate. That's why I pick on Obama so much. A lot of black people don't want to hear him bad-mouthed, - don't want to be nudged out of their comfort zone. But this just spurs me on.