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...dollar, has plunged to 1,500 against the dollar. Crime is rampant in the capital, which has also experienced a rash of car-bomb attacks by dissidents and possibly Iranian agents. There is widespread grumbling in Saddam's 350,000-man army and even dissent within the alite Republican Guard. "He's feeling the greatest pressure he's felt since the Gulf War," says a senior U.S. official monitoring the country...
Michael Waltzer, editor of Dissent, agreed with Peretz. "Dissent is not responsible for what is going on in Washington; there is some moral satisfaction in that, but also a sense of defeat...
...protest seems to be a way of expressingdissent, and I think that's inevitable," Clarkesaid. "The majority of people on this campus haveexpressed dissent...
...Supreme Court decision was not unanimous. Justice Harry Blackmun, in a dissent dear to champions of the rights of mentally impaired defendants, wrote that ``a defendant who is utterly incapable of conducting his own defense cannot be considered `competent' to make such a decision, any more than a person who chooses to leap out of a window in the belief that he can fly.'' It is quite possible that for the next few months, auditors of the Long Island trial will be treated to the dubious spectacle of the gesticulations such a person makes--before he hits the ground...
...Washington Post Co., the New York Times Co. and Whitney Communications, published an article by Lingle on its opinion page. Lingle, then a senior fellow in European studies at the National University of Singapore, wrote that ``intolerant regimes in the region reveal considerable ingenuity in their methods of suppressing dissent.'' Among several methods he listed was ``relying upon a compliant judiciary to bankrupt opposition politicians.'' The statement did not mention any country by name...