Word: dissention
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Popular approval of the Beijing leadership nosedived after the pro-democracy demonstrations were brutally crushed in June of 1989. The power-holders have since scrambled to maintain internal control and stifle dissent while seeking to improve their image among the populace. Recent visits by the leaders of Britain, Japan, and Italy have been fully exploited by the official media for their symbolic worth...
...flag burning, he first opposed the Supreme Court's sensible 1989 ruling which upheld the right to torch Old Glory (another purely political decision, which played well in Lincoln), and then supported it. Why? Chief Justice William Rehnquist pissed him off when he wrote in his dissent that people during the Vietnam War were defending the flag. Kerrey said he personally was not, and that he had therefore decided that the court was right--the flag was just a symbol...
Allow me to explain. Last week, I co-authored a dissent to The Crimson's staff editorial. The focus of the staff editorial was the sexual harassment charges which Professor Anita Hill made against (now Associate Justice) Clarence Thomas. The staff advised the U.S. Senate to reject Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court...
...dissent, we felt inclined to believe Thomas's story, and that we thought the evidence was against Hill's. But I certainly fail to see how Hill could have begun to plot against Thomas 10 years...
...unimpressive as Thomas' testimony was, as cynical as Bush was in nominating him in the first place, as antidemocratic as the N.A.A.C.P. was in attempting to muzzle dissent, nothing matches the Senate's craven performance. One can side with Hill over Thomas and still understand why Thomas described last week's hearings as a "high-tech lynching." No matter the breaches of confidentiality, there had to be a way to consider Hill's allegations in closed session. But that is a complaint about process...