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...King of our memorials is remembered as a nonviolent agitator for black civil rights. This King supposedly managed to achieve a national consensus to grant black civil rights and was ultimately responsible for creating the purportedly racism-free environs we inhabit today. But the real King moved beyond this limited view of equality and began to incorporate elements of Third World radicalism, black nationalism, and Marxism into his understanding of geopolitics and the United States’ race problem. Confronted with the quagmire of Vietnam, the rise of Third World anti-colonialism, American imperialism (under the benign name of Cold...
...electorate, the session portrayed the new legislature as a hung parliament. As tempers flared among legislators, TV coverage was cut off in order to stop the broadcast of an embarrassing spectacle. But the reason for the deadlock is not simply a failure of Iraq's elected leaders to achieve consensus. The rules of Iraqi democracy, as bequeathed by outgoing U.S. administrator J. Paul Bremer, require the support of a two-thirds majority in the Assembly for the creation of a new government, a standard that the U.S. political system might struggle to meet...
...give the Kurdish minority the means to blackmail the majority, which in turn sets the scene for an acrimonious aftermath. The Kurds want to resolve such contentious issues as Kirkuk while their power is at its peak; the Shiites insist it should be done on the basis of a consensus achieved in the new Assembly. And the electorate that put the Shiites in power - and their mentor, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani - are unlikely to accept the legitimacy of any such far-reaching agreements achieved on this basis. Sistani himself never accepted the TAL, and urged that it be changed...
...conservatives--this was a no-lose opportunity to burnish their credentials with their most demanding and important supporters. Still, many Republicans reject the notion that anything but deep moral conviction motivated the extraordinary legislative measure. "It's hard to say it's politics when you get that kind of consensus in a divided U.S. Senate," says Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa...
...legal right to make decisions for an incapacitated patient varies by state (see map on page 30), but the reality of family dynamics is that those choices are often made by consensus. Health-care professionals who frequently deal with families in those situations offer two broad pieces of advice. First, "Everybody needs to hear the same thing" about the patient's prognosis, says Bruce Ambuel, a psychologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. "Otherwise you have different people hearing different things from different specialists at different times, and it just sows the seeds of conflict." Second, family members...