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...While legal scholarship has become less ideological and more interdisciplinary, making it easier to build consensus among the faculty, Elhauge credits Kagan with breaking the political deadlock in lateral hiring, just as her predecessor, Robert C. Clark, did when it came to the hiring of assistant professors...
...doubt that the Iraq war is being drawn to a close -and not necessarily because the U.S. has achieved its benchmarks on the ground. A new U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, intended to guide the next U.S. president on the situation there, is reportedly near completion. Reflecting the consensus among the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, the new NIE will reportedly warn that, contrary to the rosy picture of progress stressed by McCain on the campaign trail, the situation in Iraq remains precarious. Although violence has been reduced to its lowest levels since early 2004, U.S. intelligence officials believe that...
...burgeoning Sino-Pakistani alliance may check what many in Islamabad and Beijing fear to be a solidifying Indo-U.S. consensus in the region. Though no official statement from either government was made, Pakistan's ambassador to Beijing, Masood Khan, told The Nation, a Pakistani daily, that obtaining nuclear reactors and fuel for civilian nuclear technology would be the "main item" in talks with Beijing this week. Apart from being Pakistan's main conventional arms supplier, China has played an integral part in building Pakistan's nuclear weapons industry. In turn, Islamabad allowed the Chinese to build a deep...
...Throughout the day, speakers and panelists spoke about different aspects of leadership, from creating a vision to consensus building...
...rescue, has identified some other vital measures. The first is that the Swedish government quickly moved to clean up government finances at the same time as it bailed out the banks. The second is that monetary policy was tightened. And the third is that there was a broad national consensus over the plan, which helped to make it a success...