Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...front doors of University Hall were locked on Friday in response to the planned protest—a common response when administrators feel that there is any “potential for dissent,” Gross said...
...Summers 3-to-1. Unfortunately for Summers, though, the tally for the no-confidence vote at next week’s Faculty meeting was quite likely to reveal just the opposite proportion.From last January, when Summers’ comments about “intrinsic aptitude” catalyzed Faculty dissent, up to now, our president lost the support of many of his high profile backers in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He did so not necessarily because his ideas were flawed, but because of how he expressed them. In forming opinions, Summers favored data over politics, basing his judgments...
...death threats against author Salman Rushdie and a portion of the murder of director Theo Van Gogh, a portion of the Muslim world has once again demonstrated its intolerance for free speech and democratic pluralism—an intolerance that reiterates the gaping incompatibility between dogmatic religion and democratic dissent. After the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten ran a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed dressed as a suicide bomber, many Muslims rose up in arms, setting embassies in Beirut and Damascus ablaze, storming the European Union (EU) office in Gaza, boycotting Danish products or withdrawing their ambassadors, and desecrating the Danish...
Harvard’s Republicans today are much like the hippies of the ’60s: both love to see themselves as provocateurs of convention, and both revel in the coolness of their dissent. They disperse in a righteous flurry of t-shirt making, protests, and campaigning, all with truly touching outrage...
...Despite the dissent, the campaign is likely to have an impact on Republican legislators who are increasingly dissatisfied with what they see as White House stalling on climate change issues. The group released a poll showing that 70 percent of evangelicals believe global warming will pose a serious threat to future generations, and that "63 percent of evangelicals believe that while global warming may be a long-term issue, the problem is being caused today, so we must start addressing it immediately...