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...that time, the Faculty also recognized what it called "the need to formulate in the near future." a new document that "will emerge from the widest discussion within and will reflect a wide consensus of all members of the Harvard community...
...hashing out how they would arrive at decisions about the curriculum. There were contingents that wanted a majority vote and some that wanted to elect a permanent leader and a representative body, but finally these ideas were thrown aside and the group decided to reach decisions only by consensus-that is, no decision would be made until it actually pleased everybody...
...groups took refuge in their ideological backrooms and there hesitantly tried to piece together future plans. As usual, their plans didn't match. The only consensus is that something will happen in the future, but not in the same...
...Brooks, said that he is "quite aware of the very strong political and moral feelings" against the Project. But "the difficulty of taking an institutional position against it." he added, "is that it can become a general position of allowing anybody's research to be debarred by a community consensus or even by what may be a small minority...
Count Me Out. In 1945 there was an Allied consensus-which no longer exists-on the doctrine of collective guilt, that all Germans shared the blame not only for the war but for Nazi atrocities as well. Like the denazification program itself, FitzGibbon starts from that consensus, and with the feeling that at the time "it would not have been possible, either psychologically or politically, simply to ignore the monstrous crimes committed in the name of the Third Reich." How just or justified the Allied judgment was seems to FitzGibbon far less clear. "Theologically," he observes, " 'collective guilt...