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...change over the next few weeks. Academy members could conceivably be anesthetized by the roll call of Brokeback victories. But our guess is that Brokeback will proceed, at a pace as measured as the movie itself, toward the happy ending the film denied its main characters. If the consensus holds, the one challenge left will be for the film's makers, who already have given more than a dozen acceptance speeches, to find new phrases of gratitude on March 5... and to feign surprise when their names are called...
...could be impacted by Kirby’s recent decision to step down, the new system could be in place by the fall and apply to the Class of 2007. We strongly support this second option.On this page, in the HCCR reports, in senior surveys, and amongst faculty, a consensus has developed that the Core is antiquated and broken. Instead of teaching “approaches to knowledge” as intended, it pigeonholes students into taking courses that are specific and narrow in scope, producing graduates who may be interesting to chat with at cocktail parties...
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...consensus was: apologize,” recalled one individual briefed on the meeting. “And Larry knew it was the right move, but he still maintained that he had the right to say what he said...
...ballot initiatives by voters who thought he had become too conservative and combative during the special election last November. The Republican Governor is trying to rally by championing levee restoration and a host of other largely nonpartisan programs in a concerted attempt to recast himself as the consensus-building centrist he promised to be when he was elected two years ago. To that end he has added more moderates to his inner circle?most notably staff chief Susan Kennedy, an iconoclastic Democrat who supports abortion rights but shares the Governor's hostility to government regulation. And he has demoted partisans...