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...before becoming the church's first prophet. Quinn had earlier published an article indicating that despite the church's official disavowal of polygamy in 1890, high officials secretly continued to practice and sanction additional polygamous nuptials. Both Quinn and Wright have been excommunicated. The very act of reporting on dissent is severely discouraged. When Lavina Fielding Anderson, editor of Journal of Mormon History, published a piece detailing the pressures faced by church intellectuals, she too was excommunicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saints Preserve Us | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

...than do their fellow social scientists. Bernard Bailyn's brilliant classic, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, investigates the roots of late 18th century American political thought. Had it been written by a professor of another social science, the title might have been something along the lines of Dissent and Its Other: Theoretical Explorations of the 18th Century American Psyche...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Confessions of a Group III History Concentrator | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...other undergraduates who favored the change said they feared members admitted over the past year might add voices of dissent to the unified front presented last September by the undergraduates. In 1989, a proposal to go co-ed was voted down by undergraduate members...

Author: By Margaret Isa, | Title: FLY Club Could Turn Co-Ed; Final Vote Expected in Fall | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...council also suffered from internal dissent, as the vice president was censured and another council member resigned after secretly tape recording a conversation...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: For the Undergraduate Council, things seemed to sour overnight. | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...Garza became a Gabay convert. Under Gabay's first administration the council experienced remarkably little internal dissent, successfully distributing grants funding free comedy concerts and airport shuttle buses, and presenting plans for evaluating teaching fellows...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: For the Undergraduate Council, things seemed to sour overnight. | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

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