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...Weeks & 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu's exemplary Romanian drama about a young woman seeking an illegal abortion for her college roommate in the waning says of the Ceausescu regime. That was an excellent choice, and more or less expected for the strong, grim film that had earned a consensus of critical esteem, and has been picked up for distribution around the world (including the U.S.). It was also a tribute to a country whose cinema industry is on the rise; another Romanian effort, Cristian Nemescu's California Dreamin', yesterday won the main prize for the Un Certain Regard sidebar selection...
...struggles. Nor do they take note of the time he spent as a community organizer on the south side of Chicago, empowering people who had no means of ensuring a better future. They don’t count the eight years he spent in the Illinois State Senate, creating consensus to improve the lives of Illinois citizens. And they do not count the formative years he spent in Indonesia, where he developed a true international perspective. Now, Senator Obama has drawn on these formative experiences with great success, first and foremost with respect to the situation in Iraq...
...need to work to reinvigorate our public discussion through our elected bodies,” Seidel said. “We want more cooperation and collaboration among councillors, and one of the things I can bring to the council is an ability to work with people to build consensus toward solutions...
...Sciences being like Russia, the largest, with other faculties like Law and Business akin to the likes of Kazakhstan and the Ukraine.This unequal balance of power across the University is reflected in Harvard’s library system. Verba himself is hard pressed to describe the process of building consensus on the University Library Council, the group of librarians heading the different faculty libraries. Verba emphasized the consensus-building nature of his position, adding that the heads of the different libraries often agree to disagree. In meetings, Verba says he will say “I guess we all agree?...
...need to work to reinvigorate our public discussion through our elected bodies," Seidel said. "We want more cooperation and collaboration among councilors, and one of the things I can bring to the council is an ability to work with people to build consensus toward solutions...