The debate should start at once so that the 15 governments could gather in a constituent assembly in, say, a year's time, to write the sort of constitution that The Economist itself suggested last October.
I thought about that day again when I saw the photographs of Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi this week rowing outside a restaurant and followed the public debate that began at once about where the lines between volatile arguments and domestic violence might be drawn.
He'd been spending lots of time with Conway, playing Phutball – short for Philosopher's Football, yet another game of Conway's invention, using a grid board with white and black stones – and at once debating the merits and demerits of the theorem.
In an eight-candidate field, four debates would be taking place at once.
Pressed about this finally the other day on MTV, President Obama called climate change a "critical issue" that he was "surprised" hadn't come up during any of the debates, a response that was at once completely accurate and totally disingenuous.
At a time when the discussion of education is locked into sterile, strident and instrumental debates about "reform," his radical humanism, at once romantic and commonsensical, would be more than welcome.
And after the debate, please don't all rush at once to register to vote before the all-new midnight Thursday deadline.
The debate reflected the state of the Republican Party: at once recklessly insinuating and utterly timid when it comes to extremism in its own ranks.
He at once joined the Jacobin Club, a debating society initially favouring a constitutional monarchy, and soon became its president, making speeches against nobles, monks, and bishops.
But Mr. Tauranac's sheepish discovery of the errors has at once rekindled and complicated a long-simmering debate over who deserves credit for the watershed 1979 guide.
