While more countries get to voice their views if the rules are forged in the WTO than in the OECD, the flipside is that finding consensus could be even more difficult.

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By not even grudgingly acknowledging that Candidate Obama did the same in 2008, Republicans continue to produce presidential nominees more concerned about the idea bundle than finding consensus and even triangulating, which Obama is now poised to do.

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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told leaders of political parties that he is committed to finding a consensus on an anti-corruption bill.

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It is a consensus that even President Obama shows signs of finding irresistible.

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So the system is built for compromise, for finding common ground, for reaching a consensus around things that serve the greater good, and in this case, reduce the deficit more substantially.

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By finding a hero who rises from shacks and degradation, the film reflects a surprising new consensus that even as slums proliferate around the world at a greater scale than ever before, they could, with the right mix of policies, be the launching pads for upward mobility rather than dead-ends.

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