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...that the dust has settled on the trade talks between rich and poor nations in Cancun this September, the domestic “trade meltdown”—the collapse of the Clinton-era consensus on free trade—has returned glaringly to the fore. A New York Times columnist recently pointed out that most of the Democratic hopefuls have shifted toward Dick Gephardt’s protectionist stance. Dennis Kucinich is calling for the outright repeal of NAFTA. And Joe Lieberman is stuck in the lonely role of defending Clinton’s laissez faire trade...
That was the consensus reaction outside both dressing rooms, as coaches and players tried to figure how a team with 12 NHL draft picks and all but three regulars back from the nation’s sixth-best scoring offense laid a Zamboni-sized goose egg in front of its home crowd...
Along with its cohesiveness, the Crimson begins the season as the consensus pick to finish first in the ECAC. Harvard received 10 of 12 first-place votes in the preseason coaches’ poll for a total of 120 points, the most earned by a team in four years...
...similar case comes up today, say, in the factory that produces your beswooshed hoodie, Harvard will be sitting on its hands. Despite broad public consensus against the appalling conditions in sweatshops, our administration still hasn’t taken the simple step that would ensure Harvard isn’t profiting off sweatshop labor—joining the Workers’ Rights Consortium...
...have basically written off [the option of filing suit] because we have had such a consensus from law professors,” he added...