41.   Minutes before the San Francisco mayoral debate at Mission High School, the neighborhood shook with a huge peal of thunder.

42.   Ninety years ago, the debate at the Explorers Club raged over which member made it to the North Pole first.

43.   Not surprisingly, Gore himself made the same point in the debate at the University of New Hampshire Thursday night.

44.   On Thursday, Issa and Fong whacked at each other in a debate at San Jose State University.

45.   Republican students who watched the presidential debate at Houston Baptist University on Tuesday were not drawn over to the Democratic ticket.

46.   Smith said the BCS-sponsored debate at Aquinas College in Newton, Mass. between supporters and opponents of the federal Communications Decency Act will proceed as planned.

47.   So far, the debate at the state level has been characterized by partisanship and bungling.

48.   She watched the debate at Zion Square with what she described as disgust, wishing that her fellow Israelis would mourn in silence.

49.   Stagehands gathered outside the Apollo theater in Harlem on Saturday and threatened a walkout, two days before a scheduled Democratic presidential debate at the historic theater.

50.   Sunday morning, two young golfers from the suburb of Dundonald opened the debate at the municipal course.