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Although an uneasy consensus is forming in favor of gay equality, the toughest test is what that equality will mean for our kids. This week the U.S. Supreme Court will take that test when it hears oral arguments in the case of Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale. The ruling, expected by summer, should settle the question of whether the Boy Scouts have to admit openly gay men and boys...
...Tamil Nadu finally started dropping its by-the-numbers policy, setting an example that was later adopted by India as a whole. The change paralleled the consensus reached at the U.N.'s 1994 population conference in Cairo, which rejected target-based birth control in favor of giving women better health care and more family-planning choices...
Severino said the two former co-chairs, Perng and Lincoln Pan, created the appearance of an official APALSA response to the incident, when, in fact, there is was no consensus that what happened constituted discrimination...
Dunn said a process that involved the Faculty would probably be necessary to award an academic prize, and by the time she and Knowles had reached a consensus, there was not enough time left before Commencement to develop such a process...
...meeting closed without the members reaching a general consensus on a boycott or a discrimination charge...