CURTAINS UP CNN likes to open its debates with a little pregame warm-up, with the candidates jogging out onto the field, er, stage, and doing a grip-and-grin with local notables.
After a centuries-long tradition of gussying up its debates with a little pomp and circumstance, one of Britain's foremost institutions of oratory apparently has decided that gowns and powdered wigs won't cut it anymore, and has turned to a man known for performing in jumpsuits and fetishistic masks.
If he supports Universal's contention that recordings are indeed works made for hire, not only would Universal receive significant damages, but it would gain new leverage in its debate with musicians.
In a society that takes pride in the mildness of its political debates (with the exception of periodic dust-ups over Quebec sovereignty), immigrant fiction writers are among the country's sharpest social critics.
We know a good deal about recent trends in the Epicurean school for example, its sophisticated debates with the Stoics on scientific method and mathematics yet we find little or no evidence in Lucretius' poem that he is aware of, let alone engaged in, these developments.
The meeting follows the Republican National Committee's decision on Friday to suspend its debate partnership with NBC News, in response to claims that CNBC moderators mistreated its candidates at Wednesday night's forum.
The Congress of People's Deputies, the Soviet parliament, became a genuine legislature, with its debates shown on television.
Several of the region's key leaders have chosen not to participate in the Palau summit with its debates about how to strengthen the regional architecture.
Being inside the complex world of a play with its debates, strategies, motivations and allegiances was brilliant for confidence and developing a love of language.
It openly discusses whom it should attack, welcomes debates with its Twitter followers, and set up phone hotlines in Europe and the United States for people to call in with suggestions.
Collins's appointment says something good about the maturity of modern evangelicalism, which is starting to abandon some of its least productive debates with modernity.
