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Today, students cite that feeling as justifying their protest of the body. The CRR exists to quash political debate and that is reason enough to protest, they say, and how it goes about punishing campus dissent is irrelevant...
Other C.P.A.s dissent roundly from that fatalism. "It's wrong to confuse a business failure with an auditing failure," argues William Gladstone, chairman of New York City-based Arthur Young. "Auditors don't manage companies." To Gladstone and many others in the profession, the kind of foolproof auditing that some critics demand is prohibitively expensive for clients and, at times, beyond the purview of C.P.A.s. Accounting executives contend that corporate auditors must be hypercautious in issuing statements that could affect the survival of individual corporations. Asks a Big Eight C.P.A.: "What company has not gone through a bad patch...
...section unanimously wishes to meet in the shantytown, it may, of course, do so. But given the difficulties of ascertaining unanimity in the face of teacher and peer pressures, it takes a brave person to dissent. As a matter of educational policy, courtesy to one's peers, and respect for the views of others, it would seem to me appropriate to participate in the shantytown after, rather than during, class...
...According to Chun, his country's enemies have already begun maneuvering to sabotage two big events on Seoul's calendar: the 1986 Asian Games, beginning in September, and the 1988 Summer Olympics. Oppositionists reply that the government is using the threat from the North as a pretext to stifle dissent. Both West Germany and Israel, they point out, preserve a civilian democracy despite the dangers of attack from across their borders...
...sense of unity and purpose. Last month Kim Young Sam hastily joined the N.K.D.P. as Lee's "permanent adviser" in the hopes of restoring direction to the party. But the opposition remains factious and agendaless, and many foreign observers suspect that it may be more interested in provoking dissent than in promoting democracy...