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...consensus is that we’re peaking at just the right time,” Lambert said. “We’re rowing the best that we have all season long. We can make a solid run for first place...
...these matters and is quite interested in them,” Lewis said. “The Ivy presidents, including President Summers, have taken a strong and direct interest in athletic policy matters, and that is part of what has made the process of bringing these proposals to a consensus in the League a lengthy and difficult matter...
...unwise at the time, since the risk was then genuinely uncertain. But it would be far harder to achieve anything similar today. The research community is much larger, and competition - enhanced by commercial pressures - is more intense. To put effective brakes on a field of research would require international consensus. If one country alone imposed regulations, the most dynamic researchers and enterprising companies would simply move to another country, something that is happening already in stem cell research. And even if all governments agreed to halt research in a particular field, the chances of effective enforcement are slim. There will...
...many schools, these efforts have crashed and burned because there has been a failure to achieve consensus,” she said, reminding students that the race for curriculum reform would be “more...
...there seemed to be little consensus among panelists as to how prevent exceptionally talented students from going straight into the major leagues...