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...will be a lot of progress,” said Harvard College Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a Council member. “I think it’s going to happen, we are feeling good.” Kleinman said there is potential for there to be very little dissent regarding the report at next week’s Faculty meeting, based on how well the report was received by the Council. Both Ulrich and Kleinman said that there was likely to be a forum in the coming weeks to discuss the advising committee’s report, similar...
...Crimson Staff editorialized based on factually incorrect information, identifying Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) as the responsible perpetrators of vocal protest that “violated HLS’s [Harvard Law School] Protest and Dissent Guidelines...
...With dissent over the Iraq war accelerating, Bush has started to make room for critics. In Beijing on Sunday, he eased his administration's sharp language of recent days, which included Vice President Dick Cheney's labeling of war critics as "reprehensible" and White House ripostes to the New York Times and Washington Post editorial pages. Cheney's remark prompted response from within the increasingly restive Republican Party. "People should feel comfortable about expressing their opinions about Iraq," Bush told White House reporters in Beijing. "I heard somebody say, 'Well, maybe so-and-so is not patriotic because they disagree...
...course, within hours, fingers were wagging, knees were jerking, and letters of condemnation came forth from the usual suspects. Now dissent of any kind, in spite of the crickets it may inspire in this instance, is always welcomed by those of us who value discussion...
...Many onlookers at the speech repeatedly disrupted the lecture, heckling, shouting rebuttals, and holding florescent posters protesting Finkelstein’s stated views. One disturbance even forced him to stop speaking temporarily. Besides inhibiting free debate, the protestors’ actions also violated HLS’s Protest and Dissent Guidelines. The guidelines explicitly state that, “A dissenter must not substantially interfere with a speaker’s ability to communicate…Chanting or making other sustained or repeated noise in a manner which substantially interferes with the speaker’s communication is not permitted...