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Critics hyped the face-off between New Republic theater critic Robert Brustein and black playwright August Wilson over Afrocentric theater as "the intellectual version of extreme fighting" (Frank Rich, the New York Times ). But the debate was judged to be a flop--lots of combative bravado and little payoff.
Issue 2 is the GOP's looming budget face-off with President Clinton.
Issue 1 is the Democratic presidential debates--both Friday night's face-off on ABC's Nightline and Sunday morning's joint appearance on NBC's Meet the Press . Issue 2 is the GOP race--including George W. Bush's remark in a debate last week that Christ "changed [his] heart" and a new poll friendly to John McCain.
West face-off, prompted by Saddam Hussein: "Iraq maintains that the inspection regime is being abused by the Americans and by Britain to maintain the embargo indefinitely."