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...going to blow up." this prophecy, which often comes up in French conversations, suggests that we understand our own history. Indeed, in France - where the word consensus is not exactly common usage, and the word reformist is considered an insult - confrontation always seems inevitable. Whether the First Employment Contract (cpe), the measure intended to encourage job creation by allowing employers to more easily dismiss the young staffers they take on, is good or bad is beside the point. It took an unusual degree of blindness for Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin to think that the French, who said...
...ago” when he was studying here. “It’s a pleasant home-coming for me,” he added. Ma told the audience that democracy is not a precondition for him to visit mainland China, but he would like to build more consensus before deciding to visit. “I’m a little bit surprised but pleased to hear that he said he didn’t lay down any preconditions for visiting the mainland,” said Guanglong Chen, a second-year student at the Kennedy School...
...qualified No is that the war has polarized us and precluded a bipartisan consensus developing with regard to policies that all future Administrations must grapple with in protecting us.The threat is real and it's all the more lethal because, paradoxically or not, it's driven by religion and nihilism and a civilization's very unhappy encounter with modernity. We must get beyond the venom and second-guessing and find common cause. We owe it to the men and women putting their lives at risk in order to protect us. We owe it to our children...
...three-peat alive. On Saturday, ECAC regular-season champ St. Lawrence prevailed over Minnesota-Duluth, 1-0, in a goaltending duel. Later that night, Wisconsin held off upstart Mercyhurst by a 2-1 count in double overtime. The results mean that the all of the host teams, representing the consensus top four teams in the nation, survived to vie for the NCAA title this weekend. —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
...statement of concern from the Security Council before sending the matter back to the IAEA and giving more time for Russia to negotiate a compromise; Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Monday that despite the agreement in Vienna to refer the issue to the Security Council, there is no consensus among the key Council members on how to take the matter forward. Meanwhile the U.S. wants the matter to stay at the Council and Tehran to be given tight deadlines for compliance, believing Iran will simply play for time in continued negotiations - particularly in the face of disagreement among...