If the folk heroes of most campaigns are, to dip into cliché, stalwart heartlanders, like Joe the Plumber, it was unusual — and maybe even heartening — to discover that a homegrown hero had apparently been found in Jeremy Epstein, a student of exercise science (totally Long Island), who posed the debate's first question.
She struck an equally ambiguous pose in the debate, so it's seems misleading to suggest that she courageously backed Spitzer.
Whatever nuances we recruit to pose the basic problem, all the debate revolves around the difficulty of it, including Robert C. Byrd's Oct. 3 Senate speech, Nicholas D. Kristof's Oct. 4 column and the responses that both provoked ("How Will History Judge Us on Iraq?," letters, Oct. 5).
9 30pm: More than one hour into the debate and the moderators pose the first question about the economy.
Mr Dalyell's "question" was posed during the debate on Scottish and Welsh devolution in 1977.
Or stage a debate in which college students pose the topics.
The Brunel debate, which posed the question 'Does the welfare state have a place in 2015?' and had the Guardian's public services editor David Brindle as chairman, was the first in a series to celebrate Brunel University's 50th anniversary year.
The aim of this intervention was to learn to identify problems, pose questions and debate the best solutions to the clinical problems at hand, a debate that was chaired by the tutor.
The problem of happiness is not an idle one: Romney himself posed it during the debate, in striking, and somewhat odd, terms, in his closing statement.
I had long forgotten the speech, delivered as part of an intelligence squared debate for the BBC posing the question: is racism destroying the Australian dream?
