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...jugular instinct for voter discontent. But can a populist party succeed without its leader? That's the dilemma facing List Pim Fortuyn (LPF), the second-largest party in the Dutch government, which formally presented its legislative program last week. Pim Fortuyn, the party's charismatic founder, shattered the comfortable consensus of Dutch politics with his critique of the mainstream parties and his tough talk on immigration. Since he was slain just days before last May's election, the LPF has been trying to plumb a line through rough leadership battles, public-relations snafus and tough coalition talks by divining "what...
...have refused to consider such a gamble. Many of them were around a decade ago for the previous Bush administration’s war on Iraq and never actually stopped calling for the toppling of Hussein’s government. In time, perhaps, if the case is made and consensus is reached, Hussein will be deposed. Until then, the world must depend on the right combination of patience, pressure and open deliberations—the same democratic principles on which this nation was founded...
...majority of campus organizations resort to consensus-based systems, which are not direct democracies but which allow certain group members to help determine their organizations’ future leadership...
...wide variety of organizations—from the fraternity Delta Upsilon to The Crimson—employ consensus-based systems of different sorts...
...past decade. The administration may have expected Saddam to eventually cave in on the inspection issue, but not this quickly. If Baghdad had, as many expected, hedged and tried to set unacceptable preconditions for complying with UN demands, Washington would have maintained the diplomatic momentum to translate the consensus for demanding Iraqi compliance into support for an invasion. Instead, the dictator heeded the advice of Washington's Arab allies whose priority remains avoiding a war, and offered immediately to accommodate...