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Outside Washington, at least, there is consensus. In New York City, police commissioner Ray Kelly says the city is still waiting for $900 million it has requested from the feds, some of which would go toward training police officers. "We are continuing to ask Washington for that money," he says. In Detroit, a critical node of homeland security, given its heavily trafficked border and large Arab-American population, city officials say they have spent $10 million on helicopters, protective suits and beefed-up border patrols. But other needs, including a communications system that would allow the city's emergency teams...
Although it goes down as a loss, the general consensus of the Harvard team was that this match put the Crimson at the level it wants to be at this season...
...Shona or Ndebele - might not understand the references in his songs. The words may even seem preachy. To Zimbabweans, though, it's the truth. Mtukudzi refuses to decrypt his lyrics. "I'm happy for people to get meaning from my songs," he says. It helps that there's usually consensus about what he's singing. Take the hugely popular Wasakara, from his 2000 album Bvuma (Tolerance). To the beat of conga drums and the gentle rattle of hosho shakers, Tuku presses an aged man to admit there are things he can no longer do: "You are spent/ It is time...
Levy sent an e-mail to the groups on Feb. 12 informing members that she would be meeting with NCWO leaders and asking for their feedback on the petition. She said she determined that “the general consensus was against demanding resignation...
TIME'S story about President Bush's environmental record neglected to report on the consensus in favor of many ambitious Bush Administration initiatives [ENVIRONMENT, Jan. 27]: cutting power-plant pollution 70%, significantly reducing air pollution from diesel engines, a $1 billion program to clean up hazardous waste, $40 billion to fund land and water conservation on America's farmlands, $4.5 billion in tax credits for renewable-energy technology, and a proposal to create the first new wilderness area in more than a decade. You also failed to examine the reasons for the President's Healthy Forests Initiative: the pressing need...