Word: dissenter
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Bercovitch, who was scheduled to teach English 90md, "American Dissent," and English 170, "Puritanism in America," will take a disability leave for the spring term to receive treatment for a throat tumor, according to Lawrence Buell, Marquand professor of English and chair of the department of English and American Literature and Language...
While the committee reached consensus on spending caps, there was dissent on other issues, especially on unemployment insurance. Some members supported bolstering the unemployment fund, while others thought it would be more fiscally effective to let the fund run out and then borrow from the federal government...
...Rankings Irrelevant" (Dissent, Dec. 16): Nobody is asking Noah Oppenheim to "kowtow to the notion that minorities can only feel comfortable in each other's company." However, he should acknowledge that many people do feel uncomfortable when surrounded by others who do not look like they do. Clearly, neither I nor Oppenheim can ever understand how it feels to be black in a white majority. But let's turn the tables: If Oppenheim were a student at Howard instead of Harvard, how comfortable would he feel...
...carry out Saturday's assassination attempt against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Indeed, the man who led Pakistan through its nuclear testing last year even may have brought Saturday's assassination attempt upon himself. "His clampdowns on opposition have created a very dangerous situation where the only outlet for dissent is in the form of acts of violence such as the one we've just seen," says TIME New Delhi bureau chief Tim McGirk. "And he's not very popular with a lot of people...
...terms, is Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress. The I.N.C. once united nearly two-dozen factions and earned support from Washington, but it has fallen on hard times. Internal feuds and well-publicized failures have melted its credibility. Another group, the Amman-based Iraqi National Accord, tries to cultivate dissent inside the Iraqi army in hopes of the putsch that U.S. intelligence calls "the silver bullet." The I.N.A. was a CIA favorite--until Saddam penetrated the group in 1996 and quickly executed 100 Baghdad-based dissidents, a brutal reminder of his famously bloody ruthlessness...