51.   The debate has taken on partisan overtones.

52.   The debate has taken on a Cold War tone, with some Cuban exiles in the community comparing the water managers to Fidel Castro.

53.   The debate has taken on renewed vigor in the days after Hurricane Felix, which did more damage to Carolina beaches than any other property.

54.   The debate took a new twist Thursday when Hamas published what it asserted were witness accounts strengthening its accusations of assassination.

55.   The debate took more than five hours.

56.   The debates took place across Illinois, often in open fields under threatening skies.

57.   The first debate will take place on Tuesday night at the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts.

58.   The Senate debate took five days.

59.   The same week this debate took place, I watched an hourlong television documentary that covered much of the same territory with much more grace and honesty.

60.   The school prayer debate took on a new dimension Tuesday when President Clinton indicated he might be open to a noncoercive school-prayer amendment.