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...There are laws that describe what sexual assault is,” Kutcher said. “If you’re concerned with preventing sexual assault... in no sense would it be appropriate to solicit people’s opinions on a consensus definition...
Pitt came to the job with a goal of regulating through consensus and self-policing, a stark change from his predecessor, Arthur Levitt, who was an outspoken ally of the small investor. In the wake of Enron, Pitt hasn't had a chance to test his style, and the hard-charging Spitzer is now making many wonder if Pitt isn't plain soft. "The SEC under Harvey Pitt has been something of a reluctant regulator," says John Coffee, professor of securities law at Columbia University. Damon Silvers, associate general counsel at the AFL-CIO, which has been carping about analyst...
...anti-immigrant populist Pim Fortuyn, Dutch voters roundly rejected all three parties in Prime Minister Wim Kok's outgoing center-left coalition. The winners were the opposition Christian Democrats, who set about exploring coalition possibilities with the party Fortuyn founded - now the country's second-largest political force. But consensus looked unlikely, as the two parties fell short of a parliamentary majority and the leader of a third possible partner, the right-liberal VVD, declared that his party would be in opposition. IRELAND Ahern vs. Apathy Prime Minister Bertie Ahern picked up enough support from voters to win a second...
...consensus view is that the PA needs to fold all 12 of the current security bodies into a single structure, under a single security chief. But the Palestinian legislature goes further - they want the security chief to have a four-year term limit, be prevented from engaging in Palestinian domestic politics and also from "having contact with the Israeli side without the consent of the Palestinian political leadership." Such an arrangement would certainly throw a spoke into current Israeli efforts to cultivate ties with favored strongmen, such as Gaza security chief Mohammed Dahlan. And it's a sign that...
Whatever their success, Fortuyn's survivors will almost certainly have to face a fundamental fact of Dutch politics: governments are coalitions formed by consensus, not confrontation. And they will face the new and difficult task, as one leading government politician puts it, "of solving problems, not just pointing them...