House aides said they expected the rule to provide for four hours of debate, divided equally between Democrats and Republicans, as well as an hour of debate on the Republicans' alternative health care bill.
Network executives and some producers said these were isolated cases, reflecting the political debate dividing the country and coming at a time when television has never had a greater diversity of viewpoints on a wider array of channels.
But with agitated crowds of demonstrators still milling at the union's gates, the student organizers decided to stage a truncated debate, divided into two smaller forums, one featuring Mr. Irving, the other Mr. Griffin.
With rumours reaching new levels of hysteria ahead of his successor's imminent unveiling, the debate dividing the fashion world is whether it should be an industry doyen to maintain the 64-year-old haute couture label's status or a young ingénu.
One thing is clear: the vitriolic debate dividing the diaspora community in the greater Los Angeles community is just a microcosm of the life-or-death debate back home in Syria, where hundreds of non-violent grassroots protesters have lost their lives at the hands of state security forces.
For years, Atlantic Yards debates divided Brooklyn's political class and had surfaced as an issue during election campaigns, but on Thursday, no elected officials joined the protesters.
Traditionally, the first debate is on domestic policy, the second is a town hall with audience questions and the third is on foreign policy, with the debates divided by subject into 15-minute sections.
It subtly participates in the debates dividing Europe – and the world – on how to protect tolerance, how to define intolerance, how to set and abide by the limits of contemporary sovereignty, and on specific issues such as how to handle an influx into Central Europe of refugees in both practical and moral terms.
The working men's debate divides progressives from the traditionalists in much the same way as do the similar battles in the gentlemen's clubs of London.
"Paternity Debate Divides Net Pioneers" (Nov. 8) describes a dispute over whether Leonard Kleinrock or Donald Davies was the inventor of packet switching, which is the foundation of Internet technology.
