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...Faculty has not yet reached a consensus. A half-dozen professors continued to air doubts on key elements of EPC’s report yesterday, posing sharp questions about the logistics behind secondary fields and how changes in concentration structure would affect senior theses and advising...
...depends on how you look at it. When the Crimson writers sat down to think about how the ECAC would sort out, the result was a consensus for St. Lawrence, who finished third last season in the league. In fact, despite a checkered past against Dartmouth, the Saints’ only real competition could be Harvard—and even then there are many doubters. This challenge may soon become clearer as the two teams meet on Nov. 13 at Bright Hockey Center...
...medical establishment. "For example, everyone said population control was the No. 1 priority and family planning the No. 1 solution," he says. That approach ran counter to principles Abhay learned growing up in Mohandas Gandhi's ashram at nearby Sevagram (literally, Service Village), which favored community and consensus over hierarchy and imposition...
Bernanke, 51, seems suited to that task in ways big and small. Both men are independent thinkers who tilt gently to the political right. Greenspan is a consensus builder who rarely convenes a meeting without knowing every vote. Bernanke built a similar reputation running the economics department at Princeton from 1996 to 2002. "When he took over the chair, there was a lot of infighting and bickering," recalls Gene Grossman, a colleague at Princeton. "He made it one of his objectives to get more consensus on decisions." Greenspan and Bernanke play the saxophone and possess a wry sense of humor...
...Such concerns come at a critical time for Abdullah, who became Prime Minister two years ago, taking over when his long-serving predecessor Mahathir Mohamad retired. The two men could not be more different. The soft-spoken, affable Abdullah is noted for his non-confrontational, consensus-seeking style, while Mahathir was more blunt and autocratic. When general elections were held a year ago, Abdullah campaigned on a platform of change, promising to root out corruption and to introduce greater transparency in government; he and his political party, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), won a landslide victory. Abdullah quickly...