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Speaking of dissent, we didn't care much for the "time to close ranks" arguments so popular with Administration officials--not to mention campus pro-war activists. Admittedly, anti-war demonstrations can lower troop morale. They can also bring unnecessary wars to a halt. The time for debate is never over. Never...
...newspaper on February 11. Citing "editorial policy," the editors refused to print the letter with more than four names attached. The 40 signatures, representing a cross-section of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff in psychology and the social sciences, provide an illustration of the breadth of dissent within the Harvard community. If they are not included, the impact of the letter is considerably weakened...
...like January was open season on Harvard course-offerings, both past and present. In a piece titled. "Mea Culpa" in The New Republic's special issue dealing with race on campus, Richard Blow, a doctoral candidate in the History of American civilization at Harvard, joins the whining chorus of dissent against Harvard's allegedly illegitimate "PC" course offerings. Here, he lets loose on a course offered by Shakespeare-guru Marjorie Garber...
Miller added that although he anticipates a fair amount of dissent within the group, "my feeling is that 80 percent of the people in the room could be brought together with an equitable solution." He would not speculate as to what form that solution will take...
...continuation of politics by other means. Unfortunately, the inverse is often true as well. Throughout its wartime history, the United States government has acted out the same script again and again on the domestic front. the executive branch centralizes power in its hands. Federal authorities crack down on dissent. Civil liberties are violated. And each time, politicians justify the measures as a temporary expediency, an unpleasant but necessary means of ensuring American victory...