This picture kind of gives me the creeps.
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A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year
One of Kansas City Star's 100 Noteworthy Books of the Year
Winner of the William Rockhill Nelson Award for Nonfiction
Winner of the Harry Chapin Media Award
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Forget the nerdy reputation that debate has. Instead think of a scenario as exciting as a sports game with high stakes like triumphing over racism. bad politics and abject poverty... An important, thoughtful and provocative look at race and class in America.
- The Boston Globe
Joe Miller's enthusiasm is infectious and the plot creates the suspense of a good courtroom thriller.
- Entertainment Weekly
The minute I finished Joe Miller's Cross-X, I held the book out in front of me -- amazed, rapturous, and hopeful... Miller's mesmerizing, vivid accounts of the debates will leave you crouched in your seat, holding your breath... An incredibly powerful, daringly hopeful book.
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Irresistible... Miller begins breezily but is soon deeply invested in the Central squad's mission to not only master the debate game on its own terms but revolutionize it with flashes of poetry and hip-hop wordplay... If all these kids could run things, Miller implies, imagine what could get done.
- Elle
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did you see the photo on the cover of "camp" magazine? impressive. i don't know how many mayors in the bible belt would appear on the cover of a gay publication cutting a rainbow-colored cake in honor of gay pride. i hope a lot, considering it's actually a very small gesture, but i bet not many. go kay.
I saw the picture on Camp. It was cool. But still. This basketball picture gives me the creeps. And... one cool picture doesn't redeem her from a career of moronic policy and patronage politics.
Enough with the congratulations of Barnes being on the Camp cover. She is termed out. She has less than a year left in office. She isn't running for anything. It only have been impressive had she done it BEFORE her last election.
Hey, I wasn't saying it was like the most awesome thing anyone had ever done for gay rights or that it should change anyone's opinion of her policy in general. Like I said, it's a SMALL GESTURE. But as such, I appreciate it. And Joe's pic made me think of it. That is all. Dissing small gesture strikes me as counterproductive... it's not like that encourages larger, ballsier gestures among other politicians down the road. Regardless, I didn't mean to suggest, by congratulating her for this small gesture, that small gestures make up for large mistakes. I just wondered if others (mostly Joe) had seen it. Take it easy, pals.
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