Word: dissenters
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...affirmative action, surely there would be people who would dissent,” she said, urging reexamination of Summers’ criteria for propriety...
...their readiness to carry out its dirty work. Beginning in 1995, Uday recruited local toughs from Sunni regions devoted to Baath rule to form a family security force under his personal control. Originally in charge of smuggling, the Fedayeen were schooled to become a ruthless instrument for quelling dissent. Skilled in torture and assassination and willing to die for Saddam, the Fedayeen are perfectly suited to their dual mission behind enemy lines. They have always operated outside the law, so they don't flinch at adopting guerrilla ruses damned by the Geneva Convention. They're willing to turn their...
...them, if the Court had found the program unconstitutional. While Fried’s was doubtless a well-intentioned attempt to defend what he saw as an attack on constitutionally-guaranteed property rights, his case, Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington, endangered legal services for the poor. In his dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia called the IOLTA program a “Robin Hood taking”—“taking from the rich to give to indigent defendants.” But since the “rich” experience no loss, Scalia?...
...Dissent: An Unworthy Role Model
What the hydra of the dissent movement needs most desperately is a single head. But with all the Democratic presidential candidates (except Howard Dean and Al Sharpton) backing the war, political leaders are hard to come by, as are mentors from the intellectual left. "People in the antiwar movement are making a giant, historic mistake," says Paul Berman, left-leaning author of Terror and Liberalism. "The argument for the war is one of solidarity with the oppressed. These ought to be the principles of the left. The people in the antiwar movement have fallen into confusion. They should be protesting...