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...bill allows judges to hand down terms of anywhere between one year and life for certain crimes. Some judges are predisposed to make rulings based in part on race, poverty, or even appearance. The indeterminate sentence provisions is a step backward in criminal justice and a regression from the consensus that judges should have less, not more, discretion...
Policies adopted by last year's collective which, Henifin said has no internal hierarchy, but reaches policy decisions by the general consensus of the group, included the support of women's right to have abortions, lesbian liberation, and affirmative action policies...
...same time, many liberal and moderate Republicans were disturbed by Nelson Rockefeller's announcement that he was withdrawing from consideration as Ford's Vice President in 1976. Despite Ford's denials, the consensus in Washington was that the President had got the word to Rocky to jump before he was pushed. Ford's purpose: to keep conservative Republicans from deserting to Reagan...
...Yale 21-17 3-1 23-11 .76 Tom Aronson Harvard 19-17 Dartmouth 21-20 Columbia 28-20 Yale 24-14 4-0 22-12 .647 Amy Sacks Harvard 27-14 Dartmouth 31-14 Penn 14-10 Princeton 21-19 2-2 20-14 .588 Staff Consensus Harvard Dartmouth Columbia Yale 18-6 141-63 .691 Chris Clark Brown 24-17 Dartmouth 35-14 Penn 21-19 Princeton 28-21 Dean of Rhode Island Sportscasters WJAR TV-Providence
...Fulfillment in belonging to a community-"communitarianism"-is replacing the old individualism. "There are few who can get their kicks à la John Wayne, although many may try." In corporations, communitarianism has taken the form of consensus between management and labor as the source of authority, supplanting the old system under which management alone ruled...