The network said it would show a divisional playoff game on the evening of Oct. 3, instead of a debate organized by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates.
To the Asia Society on Park Avenue, where I am taking place in a Keynes vs. Hayek debate organized by Sir Harold Evans and Thomson Reuters.
At the debate organized by Mr. Sanders, suspicion about the string of arrests and accusations was clear from the reactions of audience members, more than a few of whom were audibly supportive when the word "conspiracy" was invoked.
And, in a hint of the reverence in which Mr. Liu is held by members, he got by far the most rapturous applause during a recent mayoral debate organized by the union.
Despite such pleas, the debate, organized by Germany as this month's council president, broke down along the same basic fault lines as the first such discussion four years ago.
At a debate organized by the German weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel in late July, after the Assad interview was broadcast, Christoph Reuter, Der Spiegel's veteran Syria correspondent, called Mr. Todenhöfer's conclusions absurd and also rejected his view that Mr. Assad is interested in compromise.
