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According to the format worked out by the two campaigns and the independent Commission on Presidential Debates, each debate will last for 90 minutes and be presided over by NewsHour's Jim Lehrer, who brings moderating experience from three previous presidential debates. Lehrer has also been given leeway to create questions himself...
...commission negotiated different formats for each debate: standing for tonight's encounter, a seated format for the second as well as for the vice-presidential contest and a relaxed, town-meeting format with questions from citizens for the third...
...debates, on the subject of whether Bush should be elected president, were based on the Oxford format, in which each debater speaks for seven minutes on the resolution at hand. After the first minute, anyone can rise to ask the speaker a question. This goes on for five minutes, with the last minute reserved for the speaker...
...major record labels are also exploring ways of making the music experience they provide for paying customers deeper and richer. "For decades, we've been artificially constrained by the format of vinyl, by the two sides that play on a record player," says Charles Jennings, CEO of Supertracks, a digital-music distribution company. "That framework is going to be blown away...
...Bush wanted his old pal Larry King to moderate the debates. And he wanted them to be in a "free-flowing format." He was disappointed on both counts. But this week, his staff did manage to negotiate a cushion of time into the normally rigid debate format. Just in case he wants to say a little something spontaneous...