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...ultra-secret governing board it was 20 years ago. Even when change was urged from the inside, the University under Bok found a way to subvert it. When activists on the Board of Overseers tried to clean up Harvard's investment portfolio, Bok and other administrators stamped out the dissent. And when Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence tried to begin discussion of ways of promoting more junior faculty, Bok proved an enemy in making the proposals reality...
...year after the bloody crackdown that silenced China's nascent democracy movement, a divided Communist Party leadership is attempting to stifle dissent while it tries to put the best face on an unpopular regime. Recent decisions to relax the government's two-year-old economic austerity program, lift martial law in Beijing and the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and tone down the ideological decibel level represent a modest victory for the pragmatic approach of retired patriarch Deng Xiaoping over a clutch of veteran hard- liners. Yet Deng, 85, remains locked in a paralyzing succession struggle that precludes...
...communist leadership stifles dissent as it tries to put the best face on an unpopular regime. -- How many really died last June? -- Three lives, then...
...expressing this sentiment I follow Richard Rorty. Echoing Rorty, my dissent constitutes an overt protest against attempts by the Republican Club executive board and Peninsula "to close off conversation by proposals for universal commensuration through the hypostatization of some privileged set of descriptions." In the much more approachable yet pejorative language of The Crimson, I stand steadfastly opposed to the tactics and agenda of this "group of media-crazed loudmouths attempting to impose their bigoted values on the rest of the University." The danger presented by their proposals for absolute truth, if applied to society at large, is a freezing...
...narrowly conceived version of the truth. They find any moderating voice repugnant, contemptuous and subversive. This is both pathetic and lamentable behavior. They have expected all members to submit to their authority, and in doing so failed to recongize that the Republican Club itself is an instrument of dissent here at Harvard. As leaders in such an organization they have a special responsiblity to Republicans who normally feel beleagured on campus...