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...Sears' opinion was a muscular and rare expression of raw judicial power, a point highlighted, and condemned, by the three-judge dissent. (Sears, in turn, called the dissent "disingenuous...
...expense of consumers, workers and small investors. Decisions on pocketbook issues may not make headlines or create strong emotional reactions, but they may ultimately have a greater impact on the average American than the more high-profile cases to which Von Drehle referred. Thus, I must respectfully dissent...
Just don't look here for evidence of the finger-snapping hipsters that the loaded term Beat conjures. Kerouac never identified with the counter-culture that adopted his masterpiece as a generational guidebook to social dissent. For him, the Beatific was a solitary state of mind, and he satisfied his own spirituality not with hipness, but with a scholarly ardor. Kerouac was complicated: shy but frenetically communicative, he admired Buddha and St. Francis of Assisi yet supported the Vietnam War. "So often Kerouac is seen as a wild man and genius who didn't know what he was doing," says...
...nexus of political and social protest as much as a who’s who amongst the world’s best athletes. The 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, held in the midst of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement, proved the ideal setting for public dissent. And the U.S. Olympic crew, made up entirely of Harry Parker’s varsity eight from Harvard, became the face of the repugnant hippie undercurrent the International Olympic Committee (IOC) wanted to stamp out of the Mexico City Games. The Crimson’s attempt to qualify...
...obedience [following 9/11], and they asked for our trust, and we gave it to them. I resent that rip-off,” he said. “When I see the consequence of us shutting up on our ability to express our freedom of speech, our freedom of dissent, and say, ‘Wait a minute, what proof do you have?’...Those questions weren’t asked...