Word: censor
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Let’s face it. The Bush backlash has had Harvard whipped. The spectrum of acceptable discourse has grown narrower and narrower. Many students have told me they feel the need to censor themselves in the classroom. Others won’t go to political events that interest them for fear their peers or employers will find them guilty by association...
...freely.”Theodore G. Griswold, another plaintiff who is a senior at Lincoln-Sudbury High School, said it should be the responsibility of historians and students to make their own judgments.“I don’t think the government has the right to censor a dissenting opinion that will mold what students think of an issue,” Griswold said.In the spring of 1999, the Massachusetts Department of Education released “The Massachusetts Guide to Choosing and Using Curricular Materials on Genocide and Human Rights Issues.” According...
...working with the Iranian government’s censor office was quite an obstacle, according to Dumas. The office removed three sections of the book, citing conflicts with Islam...
...ALEKSANDR YAKOVLEV, 81, Communist-turned-democratic-reformer known as the "Godfather of Glasnost" for his role in formulating and promoting Mikhail Gorbachev's program of political liberalization in the Soviet Union in the 1980s; in Moscow. After rising through the ranks of the Communist Party as a propagandist and censor, Yakovlev embraced perestroika, or restructuring, and supported political competition, encouraged artists and freedom of the press, and repeatedly publicized abuses perpetrated during the Soviet...
...time for these members of the ensemble to be more than minor players. But it’s hard to blame Clooney for harping on his point. Almost 50 years after McCarthy died in disgrace, we live in a country where reporters can be imprisoned for protecting sources, networks censor themselves to avoid being fined out of existence, and questioning the president too closely can get you branded as a traitor...