Word: consensus
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...reason you don’t see much of a consensus is that people don’t have a clear framework through which to view it,” Ledeen said...
Clearly, something is afoot beyond the usual disconnect between critical and popular consensus. Fans of Son of the Mask, for instance, did not think it necessary to mount a massive letter-writing campaign against its disparagers...
...Bremer's rules were designed to force Iraq's sectarian political leaders to work together and find the compromises necessary to build consensus. But they may also have inadvertently built in a basic instability to the system. The Shiites, in particular, will be watching carefully to see that democracy gives their leaders a political dominance equivalent to their demographic dominance. If the Bremer rules are perceived to be holding them back, they'll challenge them. After all, the primary purpose of the new National Assembly is for the Iraqis themselves to design their own rules for the next stage...
...past, he has characterized his own leadership style as one of gauging the Faculty’s consensus and translating that into official policy...
...IMPORTANT IS IT, GIVEN THE SUPREME COURT'S CURRENT MAKEUP, TO HAVE A CHIEF JUSTICE WHO CAN REACH ACROSS IDEOLOGICAL DIVIDES AND BUILD CONSENSUS? I think that's very important, but Chief Justices have come from remarkably strange places. Nobody would have predicted that Earl Warren would have been able to do that on Brown v. Board of Education. When President Nixon tapped Warren Burger to be Chief Justice, he was a relatively unknown circuit judge and did very, very well...