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...President's speech was a frank, often hard-hitting discussion of the issue of violence in political conflict. Addressing an audience for whom one man's terrorist is often another's freedom fighter, Bush stressed the urgency of a global consensus on the conduct of political conflict. "We choose lawful change and civil disagreement over coercion, subversion and chaos," he said. "In this world, there are good causes and bad causes, and we may disagree on where that line is drawn. Yet, there is no such thing as a good terrorist. No national aspiration, no remembered wrong can ever justify...
...Simply reading the international community the riot act over what Washington expects is unlikely to build a very solid alliance against terrorism. The strength of a long-term coalition will depend on opening a dialogue among its members to make them stakeholders in a new consensus over global priorities...
...Laden's tirade is hardly surprising: He can't survive outside of a polarized world. And that's as good a reason as any for President Bush to take very seriously the challenge of forging an international consensus...
...Peshawar, Pakistan to discuss the post-Taliban era. The assembly agreed to invite the exiled king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, to play a moderating role and call a loya jirga, a grand council, to shape the country?s future government. But in a sign of the difficulty of building consensus, the king did not send an envoy and the Northern Alliance was not represented...
Completely unrecognizable in her street clothes—baggy olive-green pants and long faux fur coat—Palmer says the consensus among street performers is that Harvard Square business peaked around the 1980s...