Word: dissention
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...resisters and civilians was readily sold to Indonesia. Diplomatic support for the invasion was also forthcoming. Kissinger, fresh from needlessly prolonging the Vietnam War and encouraging the murderous Christmas bombing of Hanoi, helpfully suggested that the Indonesian cruelty could be construed as containment of communism in East Timor if dissent was raised...
...wrote something eerily similar to this quotation during my first year at Harvard in a dissent to a staff editorial. "Why pretend that the U.C. is or can be representative of student opinion, or that it can or will act on our behalf?" I questioned. "No one cares about it, and its members perennially return the feeling. The council is an impotent farce. Obviously, true student government does not exist at Harvard. We are ruled by the College administration. It is time to end the charade. Abolish...
...epiphany came a decade ago, when as a free-lance writer he stumbled into the Well, cyberspace's oldest and best-known hole-in-the-wall. For whatever reasons, online communication tends to be a dissent amplifier. You say something half in jest; the bad half gets picked up and further inflamed. The next thing you know, war has erupted, and people end up not talking for a year. Rheingold took it on himself to parachute in and reconnect disembodied souls...
...behalf of what is now a small but growing political minority. There are no more sweeping government solutions. More importantly, there are fewer and fewer alleged solutions that are even politically viable--hence, we will be left with a United States President rightly described by The Crimson's editorial dissent ("Lesser of Two Evils," November 4) as "ideologically bankrupt." Government cannot keep pace with the dynamic forces of even a nominally free society...
...Knox, who taught him more than 40 years ago at Yale and whose introduction to the new Odyssey is marvelously informative. Fagles reworked and revised some passages more than 20 times. His labors now ended, Fagles pronounces himself "bereft" at leaving Homer's world. He believes, against considerable scholarly dissent, that Homer actually existed and shaped his epics from a long oral tradition. "It's awfully hard to prove," Fagles says, "but I'm an incurable romantic...