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...hope is that papers like this are part of a growing consensus that a universal health care system is necessary,” Herring said...
...board that sets ECB monetary policy seems to be divided over the best way to deal with the financial crisis. When asked about the discussion behind closed doors, Trichet would say only that the board reached a "consensus" on its decision. But consensus does not mean unanimous and there is plenty of reason to believe that some members think the ECB is going too far, too fast...
...fight Thursday was not so much over whether Washington should let them fail; almost all the witnesses and lawmakers agreed that would be like "playing Russian roulette with the economy," as Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd put it. But that didn't mean there was anything like a consensus on how to handle the urgent request for a total of $34 billion in bridge loans - $7 billion for Chrysler, $9 billion for Ford and $18 billion for GM. Democrats and Republicans clearly still have major disagreements about where the money should come from, how much Detroit should...
...anything, there is a world-historical consensus about the need for a very big stimulus. This is so even though any amount in the hundreds of billions--the minimum necessary to enter the bidding--immediately makes a mockery of anything anybody has said or done in recent years about getting government spending under control. At best, you might be able to stir up an argument about "very big" vs. "very, very big," or about how the money should be spent. Politicians aren't the only ones dusting off their wish lists. Columnist David Brooks, channeling Harvard Business School professor Michael...
...pace of the one-liners in Wishful Drinking is a little relentless, but it's as valid a way as any of depicting the floodlit, perspectiveless world of fame where Fisher has spent her life. It probably didn't strengthen Fisher's tenuous connection to consensus reality when at 19 she became a pop-culture icon as Princess Leia in Star Wars. Fisher says that she hated Leia's Cinnabon hair ("Give me a hairstyle that further widens my already wide face!") and that George Lucas wouldn't let her wear a bra; instead, he made her tape down...