31.   Before Jim Williams met author Berendt he was embroiled in a debate with another city figure over how the town was growing.

32.   BMA doctors engage in public debates with boxing authorities and they produce anti-boxing advertisements.

33.   Bob Dole did well in his first debate with Bill Clinton, which probably means he did not do himself a whole lot of good in the long run.

34.   Bradley set the tone at the first of his debates with Gore, in Bedford, N.H., in October.

35.   A Dole request for another debate with Clinton has gone unheeded by the opposing camp.

36.   A debate with just the three main candidates will be held at the end of May.

37.   A debate with witty graduate students in a Cambridge pub.

38.   A disciplined campaigner, Bush hopes to control the debate with his opponent by focusing on only a handful of issues, which he outlined Thursday night.

39.   A day after his first debate with George W. Bush, Vice President Al Gore seemed far removed from the thrust and parry of forensics.

40.   According to other people who know him, Sakakibara loves nothing better than the cut and thrust of debate with other intelligent people.