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...Yale community offered virtually no dissent on Schmidt's selection. And the search committee was deeply pleased with its decision, doubly so at having avoided leaks, which eight years ago revealed Giamatti to be second choice. Although Vance was discreetly mum about alternative candidates this time, it was clear that, as a 19th century yachtsman replied when asked who finished second in the runaway victory by the U.S. in the first America's Cup race, "there is no second...
...prosecutorial cave-in may breathe new vitality into the United Democratic Front, a multiracial coalition of more than 600 community organizations that claims 1.5 million supporters across South Africa. The organization has become the principal voice of dissent against Pretoria's policies of racial separation. Still, the government of State President P.W. Botha last week reminded its opponents it will not tolerate even the most peaceful protest. In Cape Town, some 200 demonstrators gathered on a beachfront carrying lighted candles, singing and chanting. After warning them that the vigil was illegal, police dispersed the crowd with plastic whips...
Students perennially have charged that the Vietnam War-era body, which upholds the faculty's resolution protecting freedoms of speech and movement, is "illegitimate" and is invoked solely to punish political dissent...
...have by now lost all patience for your Communist propaganda, though we are alike in our strategic conceptualizations....I got into Harvard Early Action....new methods...fight for unity and strength through the quelling of dissent and deviant thought such as yours...
...There's no doubt that the Ad Board would like to see student dissent--especially dissent that involves civil disobedience in any way--muted," says Jennifer Granholme, who found herself before the Ad Board after defending fellow activist Michael T. Anderson '83. "But I don't think that they're really malevolent about it, using things like spy tactics to stop student speech...