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Many of the news stories at the DN are assigned the day before they have to be written. Though the DN’s staff editorials are carefully constructed to represent a consensus opinion, green editorialists are sometimes stuck with the responsibility of putting this consensus on paper. As Elaine Helms, the DN’s managing editor, told me, for every editorial “you have space constraints and the limitations of the people writing the editorials.” It’s true. Campus newspapers are run by students, just like you and me?...
...Usually, by public art we mean subsidized large projects, requiring confirmation from an institution or advisory board,” he said. “That mainly serves to reinforce normative values in art. It’s a product of consensus culture...
Palestinians will quickly establish a consensus over which leaders will fill the formal positions of Yasser Arafat, who died early Thursday in Paris. But consensus over the way forward will remain as elusive as it has been for the past decade. It is a measure of Arafat?s unique status as a national symbol that despite that absence of consensus, Palestinian leaders ranging from moderate liberals such as Hanan Ashrawi to the hard-eyed bombers of Hamas have concurred on the role of the aging revolutionary, who spent his last three years living under virtual house arrest at the Ramallah...
...issue of concern and that Bush won this bloc by huge margins. But “Moral Values” is about as vague and indeterminate a category as one can imagine. Can you define what caring about “Moral Values” means? Among Democrats the consensus seems to be that it means being a religious Christian and holding conservative views on a few contentious social issues—namely, opposition to abortion and gay marriage...
...revive President Bush's roadmap, but to avoid it, instead pursuing a unilateral redrawing of boundaries (the Gaza pullout) that would strengthen Israel's grip on the West Bank and remove any pressure to negotiate a permanent two-state solution with the Palestinian leadership. And the anti-Arafat consensus he reached with the Bush administration had, in every meaningful sense, taken the roadmap off the table - as Sharon's top political aide Dov Weisglass put it in a recent interview, the Gaza plan was designed to "remove indefinitely from our agenda" the question of a Palestinian state...