Word: dissenters
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Last year, after making its way through the nation's appeals courts, the argument over FDA regulation of tobacco landed in the Supreme Court. Tuesday's ruling, which was accompanied by Stephen Breyer's scathing dissent, pushes tobacco back into congressional hands. Anti-smoking forces worry that the Court's decision could weaken the tobacco industry's newfound resolve to voluntarily enhance warning labels on cigarettes and step up efforts to keep minors from smoking. But while Tuesday's ruling is certainly a victory for tobacco - sending Philip Morris's stock through the roof - the triumph could be short-lived...
...meeting last night during which the Undergraduate Council passed five bills with little dissent, the only real debate was over the success or failure of the council's Saturday night dance in honor of St. Patrick's Day and Spirit Week...
...DISSENT: Change the Policy...
This is not the place for a discourse on free will. It's a murky issue, and our everyday notions of blame, even if incoherent, do a passable job of punishing the people who, as a practical matter, must be punished for society to stay livable. But I do dissent from the common belief that this murder was unusual in being a "double tragedy." The more you know about what makes bad people bad--whether it is environment, genes or both--the more you realize that all murders are double tragedies...
...Zimbabwe's democracy. The president had based his campaign on racial demagoguery, trying to portray a "no" vote as an endorsement of the colonial past. But the minds of the urban voters was focused less on the distant past than on the present - runaway inflation, fuel shortages, repression of dissent and a military adventure in support of President Laurent Kabila in neighboring Congo that prompted the IMF to cancel all assistance to Zimbabwe. The first warning sign was there last winter, when the capital, Harare, was shut down by two days of riotous protests against fuel price hikes. With little...