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Jeremy P. Galen ’05 called collective security a “pipe dream,” saying that action cannot depend on a world consensus...
...It’s easier to achieve consensus about social goals than political ones, since within our ranks we certainly harbor a spectrum of divergent opinions about issues like queer studies or ROTC,” says Marcel Q.A. LaFlamme ’04, the public relations chair...
...peril represented by Saddam Hussein, they could not contest the Bush Administration's insistence that Saddam's continued defiance of UN disarmament demands is intolerable. Although the President has been unable to win significant international support for his regime change policy, he has succeeded in forging an international consensus behind an ultimatum, backed by a threat of force, demanding that Baghdad surrender its weapons of mass destruction. That leaves the question of war or peace principally in the hands of Saddam Hussein...
...problem is that it is nearly impossible to reach a consensus on what exactly a public intellectual is—even among a group of professors who are considered to fulfill this role. Ten “public intellectuals” interviewed for this story offered 10 different definitions of the term...
...remain hazy, except that it postpones more dramatic agricultural reform long pushed by the U.K. and the Netherlands. U.S. Getting A Resolution The Hard Way For a President routinely labeled unilateralist by his critics outside the U.S., George W. Bush has spent a lot of time trying to reach consensus with the United Nations on Iraq. After six weeks of exhausting, frustrating negotiation, the 15 members of the U.N. Security Council met to discuss the President's latestdraft resolution on Iraq. Gone was the most contentious clause authorizing an automatic use of military force if Saddam Hussein didn't fully...