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...globe, greed and excess on the part of bankers, laxity in regulation by governments, and poor financial decisions on the part of home buyers will be disincentivized, as individual interests will be secondary to group interests. The world as we know it will move toward greater cooperation and consensus and the buck will finally stop being passed around...
...region, Jundallah exploited illicit smuggling routes between Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan, possibly trading in arms and narcotics. Though there's little clear evidence, analysts suspect Jundallah received support and succor from a web of shadowy sources, including perhaps Saudi, Pakistani, Israeli and even U.S. intelligence agents. "The one consensus among experts on this matter is that Rigi was not his own man. He must have been getting aid from somewhere," says Hassan Abbas, a former Pakistani government official and currently a professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs...
Even in these days of partisan rancor, there is a bipartisan consensus on the high value of postsecondary education. That more people should go to college is usually taken as a given. In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama echoed the words of countless high school guidance counselors around the country: "In this economy, a high school diploma no longer guarantees a good job." Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, who gave the Republican response, concurred: "All Americans agree that a young person needs a world-class education to compete in the global economy...
Because there are procedural problems that need work, since 9/11 a bunch of well-meaning and very smart people have looked at this issue and identified a few things that need fixing. One compelling and frequent finding concerns the nature of our messages to our key audiences. The consensus maintains that our messages are at best poorly received by “the Arab street,” and in some cases, insulting. Not only do we have an inadequate number of Arabic-speaking foreign service officers but our communications are also hindered by an absence of meaningful cultural sensitivity...
Gone is the watercooler nation that signed on to the Cold War consensus, sent men to the moon and embraced Ike's ambitious interstate highway system. "The occasion is piled high with difficulty," said Abraham Lincoln at a moment of supreme peril to American democracy, "and we must rise with the occasion." Notice: he said we must rise. But that requires, if nothing else, a sense of shared values. Few paid much attention last December as Southern Republicans in the Senate blocked a $14 billion federal rescue of GM and Chrysler. That lawmakers representing states with nonunion foreign-auto plants...