Word: dissention
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...long, those on the Left have indulged in cynically moralistic rhetoric intended to discourage the expression of dissent and especially to show how much more enlightened and sophisticated they are than the rest of us. Anyone who disagrees with them is branded a bigot, a racist, a homophobe and so on through the catalog of epithets the Left has rendered meaningless through reckless overuse. They explain away people who hold views different from their own by attributing to such backward folk the all-purpose motivation of Hate...
This is not to say Powell's visit should go unmarred by dissent. It is incumbent upon students who disagree with Powell to express their displeasure. But what must be avoided is the large-scale auditory disruption that was visited upon former President Bush when he spoke at the University of Michigan in 1991. Whistleblowing and chanting with the intent of drowning out the speaker is not behavior commensurate with the status that is being extended to the Class of 1993. Rather, it is the mark of a band of extremists whose arguments are so devoid of merit that they...
...seems to me that this school is supposed to be the kind of place where diversity is appreciated and embraced, not repressed. And yet Benjamin J. Heller and Brad Edward White seem to disagree. In a dissent to a staff editorial they co-authored in The Crimson (March 2), they essentially stated that all athletics should lose all funding. So, athletics is not the kind of diversity they are looking for, I guess...
Although the United Nations deployed human rights observers to Haiti shortly after Clinton's inauguration (and partially at his insistence), the Haitian military has continued to punish political dissent, and applications for political asylum have increased dramatically...
...other evidence -- of shooting a Texas police officer. The court ruled that Herrera could not reopen his case years later by producing statements from four people who said his brother was the actual killer. The brother could hardly dispute the claim, since he died in 1984. In a dissent, Justice Harry Blackmun argued that strong late claims of innocence must be heard. "The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder," he declared...