Word: dissenters
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...university, for its part, committed to changing its Major Cultures course to a seminar and to involving students in the process for hiring Ethnicity and Race professors. Nevertheless, the issues of expansion and increased hate-crime enforcement seem unresolved as ever. The strikers claim that they will continue their dissent in other forms. To starve oneself for a cause involves a great deal of resolve, conviction and (possibly misplaced) ardor. In the interest of protest’s legitimacy and its success, we hope that this amount of passion goes into less severe and lurid means of effecting change before...
...Mohammedmian Soomro, his close ally and member of his own ruling League-Q party. This is hardly the action of a man with the nation’s best interest in mind—it is blatant cronyism. Pakistan has become a place where dissent is not tolerated. Musharraf established emergency rule about two weeks ago, citing national security as the reason. He claimed that emergency rule was necessary to quash the growing risk of terrorism. Hundreds of critics of Musharraf have been detained since he imposed emergency rule. Notable among the detained is Benazir Bhutto...
...commits itself to fostering civil dialogue in which people with a broad range of perspectives feel safe and are encouraged to express their reasoned and evidence-based ideas.” With such a blow to free speech, the Faculty have put their imprimatur on the death spiral of dissent on this campus...
...Giuliani has never been famous for tolerating dissent or sharing credit. His assistants in the U.S. Attorney's office had a tart nickname for the people Giuliani often promoted: they were called "the Sure-Rudys," guys who would echo the boss's instincts and decisions no matter their wisdom - as in "Sure, Rudy." The Sure-Rudys weren't very smart, a former assistant said, but they would reliably tell Giuliani he was right. Giuliani forced out his innovative police commissioner William Bratton in 1996 after Bratton seemed to like the media spotlight too much for Giuliani's taste. But Kerik...
...opposite of the work itself: if the book is simple, use your argument to complicate it, and if the book is complex, write about it in the simplest terms possible. Like Joyce, modern classical music, with its clashing harmonies and deliberately inscrutable structure, has become a locus for dissent between intellectual elites and the hoi polloi. You either get it or you don’t, the conventional wisdom says, and neither side of the divide wants much to do with the other.Except for Alex Ross, that is. His book manages not just to reach across the vast chasm between...