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...Soviet-style collective farms afloat. Vladimir Khalip, a Belarusan writer and documentary filmmaker, didn't think this would be enough to save the regime. "Now, its collapse is inevitable, come May or June," he said. Such forecasts have proved wrong in the past, but on one point there was consensus: there wasn't much that was happy about this New Year in Belarus
...competitive - was an incorrigible autocrat, who had accumulated massive amounts of political and financial power in his own hands, bypassing the elected legislature and democratic institutions. He was running the Palestinian Authority as his personal fiefdom, the argument went, stoking militancy and blocking the emergence of a moderate consensus through his political control...
...Despite Saturday's sanctions vote, the international consensus remains that diplomacy offers the only route to settling the Iran nuclear standoff. But the sanctions resolution looks unlikely to make Iran more amenable to addressing international concerns; instead it will likely push back and take steps of its own to raise the stakes. The six-party talks experience also underlines the difficulty of using sanctions as a negotiating tactic: North Korea used the revived six-party process to talk not about the nuclear issue, but about sanctions. And similarly Iran, rather than buckle, may be inclined instead to test Washington...
WIKIALITY n. Wikipedia + reality = truth based on consensus rather than fact. The growing popularity of the online encyclopedia, for which the public writes and edits entries, gave rise to the term...
...There was a quite broad consensus that in many ways the agenda that President Summers had set had really become the University’s agenda,” Bartels says...