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Probably not. Few people could disagree last week with the Bush Administration's decision to alert workers in New York City that their buildings had been cased. But there's less of a consensus, including in more terrorism-prone places like Israel and France, about whether U.S. officials should be forthcoming about how they came by that intelligence and what exactly they are doing about it. "To publish or not to publish--this is the dilemma of the intelligence officer every day, every minute," says Colonel Yossi Daskal, a retired head of the terrorism section of Israeli military intelligence...
...board solicited donations, talks centered on who should receive the money. "We discussed whether to help other seniors who were in need or whether to help kids," Conover says. The consensus was that local agencies dedicated to helping children from birth to age 6 were the best investment. That decision was based largely on research from two respected sources: the Carolina Abecedarian Study and the Perry Preschool Project, both of which demonstrated the long-term value of helping younger children. The board also wanted to give to organizations that had a proven track record but that didn't receive...
BOSTON—It was, by general consensus, the most important speech of John F. Kerry’s life...
...despite the hardship, very few blame President Arafat for the political crisis. There seems to me a consensus in the Palestinian territories that the PA is not to blame for the failure of Camp David. Palestinians, just like anyone following the course of this conflict, heard endless talk about how the PA was offered 94, 95, 99 or even 100 percent of the 1967 lands—it all depends on how far the person describing the deal is willing to stretch it. Still, almost no Palestinian believes that Arafat was offered a viable and sovereign state. Palestinians?...
...community groups, nonprofit organizations and governments are redoubling efforts to control the mosquitoes that cause the disease through the sale and distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets and the indoor spraying of antimosquito pesticides. And after a few notably fiery fits and starts, there appears to be a real consensus among health officials about how to proceed. Certainly, the need for action has never been clearer...