EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Derrick Ward did not hang around the Giants' locker room long enough Monday afternoon to participate in the great Earth, Wind and Fire debate.
How can "firm, serious" Republic fire debate if most people are fine, even happy, with the status quo? "It's about asking questions, getting people thinking, working from a premise of fairness and equality," says Paula Feehan.
Last October, in the first synod of bishops called to consider how to adapt the church's approach to the modern realities of family life, such proposals sparked unusually public disputes among church leaders and a brush fire debate that has continued to flare since then.
At the height of the heated "last hired, first fired" debate, the warning went out that the threatened layoff of thousands of teachers would have its greatest impact on schools in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.
Arrayed like an eager, overlooked platoon, the 10 Democratic candidates for president engaged in a rapid-fire debate yesterday about the nation's economic troubles and managed to keep their sights on President Bush more than on one another.
A United Methodist youth pastor in Mount Holly, N.C., he said he had "gone through the fires" debating the ethics of file-sharing with other Christians, but had heard no convincing arguments against it.
And then the two men were off, going back and forth in some 140-character rapid-fire debate day trash-talking that finally wound down nearly a dozen Twitter posts and more than two hours later, after Mr. Axelrod referred to Mr. Fehrnstrom as "Dude".
Mon Jan 16 20 36 48 via Eric Fehrnstrom And then the two men were off, going back and forth in some 140-character rapid-fire debate day trash-talking that finally wound down nearly a dozen Twitter posts and more than two hours later, after Mr. Axelrod referred to Mr. Fehrnstrom as "Dude".
But, as everyone in the breeding business knows, there is no accounting for genetic inheritance, whose unpredictability is exactly what keeps the bloodstock industry going (and fires debate about whether or not a horse like Frankel will succeed in his second career perfectly valid).
Over on Twitter, the forest fire of debate quickly began to rage: they weren't pants, they were shorts.
