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Part one: Bringing Art To Allston Part two: A Community Endeavor Part three: Defining 'Allstoned'The delay shows just how wide the gulf between Harvard and the Allston community has become. Both sides should, however, realize that their interests are not so disparate and work to find consensus within the compelling vision set forth by Harvard’s Allston Master Plan...
...Antras, an assistant professor who is on leave this academic year, said that the nomination and selection process took under a year. “Around May or June of last year my department told me that I was being nominated. I gather that [the nomination] follows from a consensus among senior faculty,” Antras said. Granted by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the fellowship honors researchers with “outstanding promise,” according to the foundation’s Web site. In addition to the three economists, Harvard’s Sloan fellows...
...Journalistic consensus has been reached on at least one subject: Helen Mirren is a stone cold...
...candidates ever elected. He had a rock-solid stance against slavery, and when he called on mending the “house divided,” he did not propose to do so with flowering rhetoric and vague promises of cooperation, but rather by ending the spread of slavery. Consensus builder? Half of the country seceded when the man was elected. This was a leader who knew that the only way to truly mend a country was to take difficult, unpopular stances, and to fight for them, rather than to simply ride populist appeal...
Obama, in contrast, is so set on inoffensiveness that it’s getting hard to see any substance behind the veil of smiles and cuddles. His agenda includes eliminating poverty, creating energy independence, and building consensus between parties. Lucifer himself couldn’t take issue with this platform. All that’s left for Obama to do to cover all his populist bases is to absorb Justin Timberlake’s progressive platform of “bringing sexy back...