Word: dissenter
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...spirit in opposition, rather than in accommodation, that grips me because the romance, the interest, the challenge of intellectual life is to be found in dissent against the status quo at a time when the struggle on the behalf of under-represented and disadvantaged groups seems so unfairly weighted against them." --Edward Said...
...ammunition of intellectual resistance is discovering the will to challenge authority. Harvard generally teaches its students that upon graduation they are to seize the rewards available to capitalist elites, not that they are responsible for identifying American dilemmas and agitating to solve them. One of the few voices of dissent at the College is Professor Cornel West, who writes that America is currently a "twilight civilization" that is in dire need of fundamental re-evaluation...
KINSHASA, Congo: On the eve of his swearing-in as President, Laurent Kabila's 'stability before democracy' prescription for rebuilding the new Congo continues to leave little room for dissent. In Kinshasa, armed soldiers broke up a crowd of about 1,000 opposition activists marching in defiant support of Etienne Tshisekedi, the former Prime Minister passed over by Kabila when he formed his new government last week. No injuries were reported, but some 50 who had been chanting "Kabila, assassin of Congo!" were detained after the army moved in. TIME's Marguerite Michaels notes that the relatively small turnout means...
William H. Walsh, the only council member to dissent, no longer sits on the council, following his conviction and sentencing on state fraud charges...
...report from the Justice Department's inspector general. Michael Bromwich released a 600-page doorstop charging that some FBI forensic operations had been sloppy and biased. But even before the verdict was reached, Whitehurst's treatment as a whistle-blower raised questions about the FBI's ability to manage dissent. At first, lab managers dismissed his complaints about colleagues' work as prickly perfectionism. They suspended him for a week after he notified defense lawyers of lab errors in a case. It was not until 1994 that Whitehurst's claims were taken seriously enough to reach the inspector general's office...