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...version of student government are slim, and the odds of any group organizing a radical, grass-roots coalition are even slimmer. Harvard students span the breadth of the ideological spectrum--there are probably as many libertarians at Harvard as there are Marxists. In light of this, some form of consensus-building is necessary. The new student assembly will not turn Harvard into Utopia, but it is a sound step in the right direction...
...Constitution's lack of effectiveness is obvious on two levels. First, as far as University-wide policy is concerned, the Assembly would be a very loosely-organized debating society, and any consensus it reached would have about as much effect on Harvard as that of a debating society. That is, it will create more resolutions and petitions which Harvard will ignore...
...social reforms backed by Giscard, he can now offer substantial help by mustering parliamentary support behind the presidential policies. Chaban shares Giscard's vision of a France in which the left-right polarization that has divided the country for so long could be replaced by government by consensus. Sounding much like Giscard himself last week, Chaban told the National Assembly: "I return in the same spirit that makes human relations rest on honesty, mutual respect and tolerance...
When auto executives made their annual sales forecasts last year, they reached a consensus that more than 11 million cars would be sold during the 1978 model-year. Then they spent the winter chewing their nails; as snowstorms ravaged the Midwest and Northeast, sales fell to an annual rate of around 10 million. Now the prognosticators of Detroit think they are being vindicated. Though a downturn in the last ten days kept March sales from catching up to those in the same month a year earlier, they came within 1.4%. Even better, sales of 883,000 U.S.-made cars...
HAVING MADE IT CLEAR that he stands far to one extreme of the perennial nature v. nurture controversy, Devore talked about studies on apes, seals, and ants. One group of ethologists, studying various primates in the Fifties (Devore and his baboons among them), came to a consensus when they put their data together in the early Sixties...