Today. the faculty and principal at the page school also recognized Sina with the Leadership Award and the Good Citizen Award. What initially prompted my recognition of Sina was his winning essay in the 1998 Law Day Essay Competition sponsored by the District of Columbia Courts and The Bar Association of the District of Columbia. which I only learned of last week. Sinas essay is a well written piece on the importance of the first amendment that draws heavily on his first hand experience as an immigrant from Iran. He writes that the first amendment creates "a battlefield of ideas which allows the best ideas to emerge". I hope he was at least in part inspired by the "battlefield of ideas" that is evident each day on the Senate floor.
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