Word: dissenters
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...people from peaceful protest,” she said. Provost and Gould-Wartofsky both said that Harvard should issue a public apology, which did not appear in the May 1 statement. “Harvard has to make an active and public commitment to making free speech and peaceful dissent a mainstay of this campus,” Lee said. Gould-Wartofsky, Provost, and Lee were represented by Daniel Beck, an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild, who sported a black tie adorned with anarchist symbols at the hearing. Roosevelt was represented by Robert LeBlanc, a public defender. Gould-Wartofsky...
...Europe of the 1920s, that generational dissent was mostly expressed either in the arts (Jean Cocteau, Fritz Lang, Aldous Huxley) or in outright decadence (at the haunts of London's good-time toffs, say, or at just about any club in Berlin). But caught up in a renewed spiral to war, youths, many of them jobless, were soon being courted by political groups on the left and right. Nowhere more so than in Germany, where the Wandervogel, a popular, free-spirited, back-to-nature youth movement whose nonpolitical ideals had survived World War I, found itself hijacked...
...between $20 and $30. Now it hovers between $50 and $65. And that's not likely to change anytime soon, given rising demand from China and India. That gives oil-producing autocracies such as Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Sudan and now Nigeria more money to crush or buy off internal dissent. And it makes it easier for them to win friends and influence people around the world. A decade ago, authoritarian governments were largely on the defensive. Today Venezuela's Hugo Chvez is cloning himself in Bolivia and Ecuador. And Iran is on the verge of dominating the Middle East...
...free-speech rights and won in the lower federal courts. But the Supreme Court accepted the school's appeal and is expected to rule on the case before July. It is the most significant high-court case since Tinker to test a school's authority to suppress student dissent, but that may be where the similarities end. "Tinker was all about explicitly political topics, and the courts were sympathetic about protecting students' fundamental political rights," says Arum. "It's quite different when you're talking about bong hits." Or, for that matter, Tigger socks...
...Harvard has to make an active and public commitment to making free speech and peaceful dissent a mainstay of this campus,” Lee said...