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...view of the realities of the new environment created by the increasing global role of the emerging-market economies. It would not be sufficient to transform the IMF into a lender of last resort at the global level. Such a move would also require the elaboration of a broad consensus toward a new global financial infrastructure that will ensure a smoother and more transparent functioning of the institutions and a better ability to identify potential crises and contain them...
McCain's unusual movie night was just one sign of how the Year of Monica is changing campaign 2000. But in the same way that there is no consensus on what the past year was finally about--sex and lies? sexual witch hunts and hypocrisy?--no one is yet sure what its repercussions will be. Watergate was followed by an era of weakened presidential leadership and moralizing politics. But Watergate was about clear abuses of presidential power, not middle-aged sex play and the attendant embarrassments, and it ended with Richard Nixon in pieces on the ground. By comparison, Bill...
...There was a general consensus among Hillelstudents that [a multicultural center] was a goodidea," Finestone said...
...court rulings are part of an emerging legal consensus: that speech on the Internet should get the same protection, and carry the same responsibilities, as in print. That means it will be hard but not impossible to restrict online smut. While rejecting Congress's new law, the Philadelphia judge pointed to some restrictions that might be permissible. The Portland jury verdict is a timely reminder that on the Internet, as in other media, imminent threats aren't protected by the First Amendment...
...reflects there's a consensus on the council that there's housing crisis. We're running out of affordable housing," said Katherine Triantafillou, the city councillor who introduced the resolution...