It seems as if most seasons feature a team with Miami's profile — a team that wins a bunch of close games and provokes the perennial debate between the camps of «your record is all that matters» and «how you win has predictive value and should be a part of the rankings.» (sbnation.com)
August 11: DNAinfo's interactives guru Nigel Chiwaya created an ingenious interactive map of New York City to give New Yorkers a chance to continue one of our perennial debates — where exactly do our neighborhoods lie? (dnainfo.com)
Evelyn Fox Keller expresses dismay at the persistent rejection of the answer «neither nature nor nurture, but both» to the perennial debate setting one against the other (18 September, p 28). (newscientist.com)