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...fight with Britain in the face of great popular support for the nation's first ally. Thomas Jefferson secretly schemed to enlarge the Navy's operations in the Barbary wars. President James Folk's reckless acquiescence to annexation fever during the Mexican War created dissent in Congress and among non-frontier voters that, in Javits' view, stood "unequaled until the war in Viet...
...Calling the whole process a fraud, the opposition withdrew from the contest five days before the voting and urged its supporters to boycott the polls. However justified, that action assured the Caetano government, whose victory was never in doubt, that there would not be even the smallest voice of dissent in the puppet parliament...
...Russia is concerned with its international image in various circles," Chomsky said. "If they know they are being watched and that close attention is being paid to Russian dissent, it may relieve some of the pressure placed on the Russian citizens...
...Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to examine the financing of higher education, the commission's task quickly broadened. Its 104 reports, running in size from a 978-page statistical survey to slim booklets of less than 40 pages, have probed such diverse facets as student dissent and dental education. Last week, with the publication of its final report, Priorities for Action, the project came...
Nevertheless, he remained an outsider, though totally caught up in the day-to-day molding of the dissent-ridden collection into a surprisingly successful team. By maintaining his precarious distance, Woodley's journal of that football season manages to exemplify the very best of the new journalism, capturing the seemingly insignificant details that, added together, reveal the greater truths...