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Casey, who lobbies in Washington, D.C., in consultation with Ladd, said he plans to work with several similar associations to which the University belongs, reporting back to the government as soon as a consensus emerges on the DHS’s proposed...
...life decisions are never treated lightly. Hospital ethics committees confer with family members to establish proof of a patient's wishes. "Overwhelmingly, these cases are decided by consensus," says Dr. Joseph J. Fins, chief of the division of medical ethics at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center. "What's so tragic here [in Schiavo's case] is that you have a family divided against itself...
That progress came despite the open auditions for three centermen, slots left vacant by the graduations of Dominic Moore, Brett Nowak and Aaron Kim. The consensus number one center on the team is junior Tom Cavanagh and, perhaps because of his positional security, Mazzoleni started him at left wing to get a look some of his other players...
...It’s very rare to get such a deep consensus about an issue from the law faculty,” Professor of Law Christine A. Desan, who helped to draft the letter, wrote in an e-mail. “That makes the letter a very strong statement that we should challenge the legality of the Solomon Amendment...
...that a body like the U.N. does good, on occasion. But when sparse good works combine with the farcical reality that Libya leads the Human Rights Commission—largely to insulate itself from allegations—and the fact that the U.N.’s rule-by-consensus Security Council has probably done more to diplomatize, coddle and talk about human tragedy than to truly lessen it, it’s time for humanitarians to come to terms with their sacred...