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...debate??€™s moderator, Jim Lehrer of PBS, forcefully prodded the presidential hopefuls to embrace the free flowing debate format that would allow them to spar directly with one another...
...Vice-Presidential debate?...
...hide her weaknesses. Informing the electorate about candidates’ qualifications (or lack thereof) is precisely the reason for such exchanges. Without free-flowing argumentation, debates become little more than 90-minute spectacles of empty rhetoric. Public interest, not the political needs of a given candidate, should determine a debate??€™s structure. As John McCain would surely argue, in these precious few times of year when policy positions can actually be examined, politics should come second, and country first...
...rest of the semester, however, was not as productive. Having faced several meetings in recent years—including November’s infamous debate??€”in which the Faculty failed to meet quorum, the Faculty put a proposal to lower quorum from one-sixth to one-eighth on the agenda for the next meeting. Perhaps out of shock at having accomplished something during the February meeting, or maybe out of fear that the meeting would not reach quorum itself, the Faculty decided to cancel their March meeting, putting off their discussion of the quorum question until April?...
...former swimmer dominated the proceedings at the year’s penultimate meeting—which featured a look at the Faculty’s year and little debate??€”getting up from and sitting down in his chair on at least four occasions as he presented the substance of the meeting...