Word: dissenting
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...dissent was sharp. "The particular testing program upheld today is not reasonable, it is capricious, even perverse," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the minority. How, the dissent wondered, will a line ever be drawn between students who may be tested and those who may not? That line may never be drawn, says Perry. This decision means schools can in essence test for drugs in any student they want...
...Grand Prix (second place) at the Cannes Film Festival. That propelled Jiang into the pantheon of white-hot Chinese directors. The problem was that the director sent the movie to Cannes before it had been approved by China's censors, who are acutely sensitive not only about political dissent and sex but about how the Japanese are portrayed in films shown on the mainland. Beijing got angry. As a result, Devils has never been shown in China, and worries about official displeasure have scared Jiang into staying clear of the director's chair ever since...
...right in thinking that Wang Dan’s exclusion from a public gathering at the Inn at Harvard was a big deal. Certainly it was important for what the incident implied about how much Harvard was willing to disagree—and show that dissent in public—with its varied political visitors...
...though, the transition away from activism was still far from complete. Protests continued, but without the same international importance that they carried in the early ’70s, when the Class of 1977 was entering college. Late ’70s protests often voiced dissent over issues of local rather than international importance...
...would be a sad day for the United States if the tradition of dissent were driven out of the universities,” he wrote. “For it is the freedom to disagree, to quarrel with authority on intellectual matters, to think otherwise, that has made this nation what it is today...