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Galluccio will be remembered for his consensus-building and, in chairing the School Committee, working to pass the recent plan to integrate Cambridge schools on the basis of families’ economic status, his colleagues said...
...sense Bush has had the gift of a crisis that automatically creates a consensus in public opinion about the necessity, the morality and the justice of what we are doing. I give him very high marks for his remarks to Congress on Sept. 20. It was a very effective speech: measured, concrete and moving. It did all the work that a speech like that...
Parsons is a consummate straddler of worlds and builder of consensus. Born in a working-class Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood, he rose to become a lawyer, a bank CEO and a moderate Rockefeller Republican. He describes himself as a "lunch-pail guy"--albeit one who owns a vineyard in Tuscany and who celebrated his promotion with a Cohiba Esplendido cigar and a $400 bottle of 1963 Taylor port...
Hardt and Negri have cut through one of the most tedious debates in contemporary politics. Everyone understands that globalization, the process by which societies and economies are being integrated, is one of the defining issues of our time. But there has been little consensus on its effects. On the one side stand those who argue that increased global trade and investment raise real income levels and that the modernity that comes with economic prosperity increases opportunity for countless millions. On the other side are those who maintain that globalization has more losers than gainers, both in the rich world (think...
...More chilling, though, is the paper's report on a debate among Islamic theologians on suicide bombing, in which the consensus appeared to be that prohibitions against attacks on civilians didn't apply to Palestinian "martyrs" as they were from an occupied and outgunned people...