Word: dissenters
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...urban-rural income divide is at its widest since the People's Republic was founded in 1949, with farmers earning just one-third of what city dwellers do. To try to quell rising dissent, Hu has unveiled a massive New Deal for farmers, promising billions of dollars in central-government aid for "building a new socialist countryside." The reference to rural socialism was pure marketing magic; many farmers miss the good old days when nearly everyone was poor-but at least the state provided a safety net, known in China as an "iron rice bowl...
...still criticism, and the leadership will try to stop it at all costs." So even if the country isn't really reverting to socialism, there's at least one trait that Comrade Van Winkle will find familiar in this crop of Chinese leaders: a continuing aversion to dissent...
...University has categorically rejected this suggestion.” His suggestion that divestment from Israel would be “anti-Semitic in effect, if not in intent” made waves scarcely a year into his presidency. His opponents claimed that Summers’ veiled accusation stifled dissent, but for supporters, it was a vote of confidence.“I think it was a stunning example of a leader taking a brilliant position in a way that I have not seen done before or since,” Zarchi says. “It was a historical speech...
...applying.”And a senior Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md., Alex Imas, who did not apply to Harvard, said, “I think more highly of Harvard now than I did a year ago.” The Faculty’s expression of dissent “tells me that there’s no company line they have to follow there,” he said.Imas added that “controversy is a good thing. Controversy forces issues to the forefront, and if there’s anything wrong with Harvard, this...
...attest that the Faculty is in no way a festering cauldron of left-wing lunatics. Overall, its members are a diverse and impressive group of hard-working scholars, variously committed to teaching and public life, open-minded and broadly tolerant, but generally quite slow to voice their dissent on most matters. In other words, they are politically liberal but temperamentally quite moderate. Much like the undergraduates they teach, they are more interested in professional success than in social justice. They hardly constitute a threat to Harvard or to civilization...