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...Crimson's Ivy title hopes appeared to take another turn for the worse on Saturday when the team found itself trailing by 12 at the half to Princeton--this year's consensus pick for the Ivy cellar. But on this night, Harvard mounted a successful comeback with a 23-2 run and held...
...happens all right, though the consensus is that it probably didn't happen this time. Almost no one, from White House correspondents to GOP advisers, is buying the "mistake" line. Instead, this is widely perceived as a case of political short-sightedness that the Bush team was able to pull away from before it caused any real damage. "Somebody woke up over there and said, 'Whoa, wait a second. This is contrary to Bush being the unifier he wants to be,'" Republican strategist Jim Innocenzi told Thursday?s USA Today...
...fundamental question remains: Should our laws punish the addict for using drugs or help the addict overcome his addiction? "The general public consensus seems to be shifting away from punishment and toward treatment," says Kenneth Sharpe, professor of political science at Swarthmore College and an expert on U.S. drug laws. "To many conservative drug warriors [many of whom legislate and enforce our drug laws], a drug problem is a problem of the individual. And punishment, the harsher the better, forces individuals to address their problems. Then there's a whole different model that recognizes drug addiction as an addiction like...
...reportedly spent a lot of their meeting debating the reasons for Al Gore's loss to George W. Bush. Gore insists that Clinton's personal life hurt his chances to win the election, while Clinton argues that Gore failed to capitalize on the administration's successes. Is there some consensus as to who's right...
When the Cambridge School Committee meets tonight, top school administrators' jobs will be on the line--and so will the reputation of a body that prided itself last year on achieving consensus but now faces deep divisons...