Word: consensus
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...that is just what he's done. Although Eminem's sensationalist rapping still rides high on the charts, that old consensus may at last be showing signs of breaking down. In searching for a little meaning in his own heart, Everlast may have touched on something that will make hip-hop reconsider...
...fact that there were two vigils indicates that we might have different stakes in what is currently going on in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, and are affected by it differently," said Abu-Ayyash. "But the overarching consensus exists that we both hope and pray for peace in the Middle East...
...between Al Gore and the parody of Al Gore on "Saturday Night Live" last weekend. Gore certainly made the SNL Gore disappear last night, but he may have made himself disappear in the process. And sure enough, this time around, he lost the instant audience polls and the pundit consensus after the debate. Given the aftermath of the debate he "won," of course, that may have been precisely the strategy. The question, to be fought out in the following days of on-air punditry and polling: can Al Gore win for losing...
...elections for the Serbian parliament in December may further narrow his own political base. Kostunica is the leader of a small party that has been somewhat peripheral among opposition groups in recent years, and the 15 parties in the coalition he led - which was based not on a policy consensus but simply on the need to oust Milosevic - must necessarily go their separate ways in a parliamentary election. He may be set to learn, like Iran?s reformist president Mohammed Khatami, that winning the presidency by a landslide doesn?t always eliminate the old order...
...Clintonesque?" asks David Greenberg, a Hofstadter Fellow at Columbia who has written widely on academia. "In certain respects, yes. They need to please a variety of different constituencies, to use the bully pulpit fearlessly and to have a gift for articulating issues in a way that builds a consensus of the academic community behind them...