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Youth chiefs' debate a dicey affair

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From: New Straits Times
Date: 20001017
Author:Abdullah Ahmad

Abdullah Ahmad
New Straits Times
10-17-2000
Youth chiefs' debate a dicey affair
Byline: Abdullah Ahmad
Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2*
Section: Opinion
Column: On the record

FOUR hundred and nine years before Christ, Sophocles says in Philoctetes, "I see that everywhere among the race of men it is the tongue that wins and not the deed."

And Samuel Butler said 88 years ago, "that in an argument (debate) it is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy, but he who has shown the most forbearance and the better temper".
How true the two are sometimes in the context of ...

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