Word: discontentment
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As Summers’ presidency crumbled in the face of Faculty discontent, Knowles was a confidante of Houghton and a friend of the president’s critics. Though he stepped publicly into the fight only to suggest the formation of a committee to negotiate between the Faculty and Summers...
This lack of flexibility in spite of the looming Olympics is worrying, says Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with New York City-based Human Rights Watch. "Especially now with the Lhasa protests," he says, "they are facing a pressure-cooker period." Beijing will have to keep a lid on Tibet...
It was last May, after the government refused to renew the license of an anti-Chávez broadcast network, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), that Sánchez and other students first decided to push back at what they called Chávez's increasingly autocratic leadership. Sánchez helped lead thousands...
Students voiced discontent at the time because Third Eye Blind’s most popular music was released almost a decade before they took the steps of Memorial Church.
Memories - with their power to seduce, to reinvent, to torment - are what fuel A Partisan's Daughter, Louis de Bernières's quiet yet moving new novel set in London in 1979, during the strikebound Winter of Discontent. As recounted by Chris years later, it's an aching tale...