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...emotions have cooled, and there seems to be a much greater feeling of consensus in the Faculty. There is a dean like Rosovsky--who, unlike his predecessor, McGeorge Bundy, a lover of controversy and institutional intrigue--is frank about his goals for educational reform and his determination to achieve them. And there is a hope that the combination of such clearly-stated goals and a renewed sense of common purpose in the Faculty will produce a new vision of what a Harvard education ought to be--a program that would enable the University to prepare leaders for the 21st century...
...that a modern and commonplace facility like an airport drove so many people to such maniacal extremes? The trouble began in 1966, when government planners searching for a site for a jet-age airport chose Narita, which lies in a rolling truck-farm belt. Ignoring the consensus system, which is considered a cardinal virtue in Japanese society, the planners never bothered to consult with the residents of the region, whose families have farmed the same tracts for generations. To the dismay and fury of the farmers, the government began to expropriate the land. Thus was organized the Anti-Airport League...
...elections gave Giscard both a popular mandate and the political means to pursue his oft-repeated determination to "modernize French political life." This meant that the President intended to substitute a political consensus for the left-right polarization that has characterized French history. But ever since his 1974 election, Giscard has been thwarted. On the one hand, a strong Gaullist contingent rejected his proposals for reform; on the other, the leftist opposition consistently refused Giscard's overtures, in the hope of gaining power itself...
...quite. The country's name is still Rhodesia, and Smith will remain Prime Minister until a new constitution takes effect after a whites-only referendum some time before the end of this year. But Smith's powers will be diluted. The Executive Council will rule by consensus, with each member having veto power. Smith will be its first chairman, a position that will rotate every four weeks. Asked whether it was just coincidence that he happened to draw the first lot, Smith gave a nervous smile. "We agreed it would be better this way. We drew lots...
...campus minority groups and the liberal purists who valiantly fought to defend the sanctity of the one-man-one-vote philosophy--will face the obstacle of surmounting the negative opinion about the constitution that has resulted, in part, from both the inability of Harvard students to come to a consensus and the famous cynicism that Time magazine has so perceptively told us pervades our campus. The brazen convention members, up to now, have been confident that one day they would be able to call themselves the founding fathers of such a prestigious organization as the student government of Harvard...