Word: dissention
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Harvard's guidelines were drawn broadly to allow for dissent. Punishment would be administered only in cases in which dissenters broke University rules and not because of the political content of the dissent, according to the report...
...lack of serious debate, council meetings this year were shorter than usual. Even the most articulate representatives couldn't come up with witty dissent to milk-and-cookies study breaks or congratulatory letters to President-designate Neil L. Rudenstine...
...constitutional right to an abortion but made it illegal to discuss the procedure in federally funded centers "Government . . . may validly choose to fund childbirth over abortion." -- CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM REHNQUIST, THE MAJORITY OPINION "This is a course nearly as noxious as overruling Roe directly . . ." -- JUSTICE HARRY BLACKMUN, IN DISSENT...
Terror is back in style in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Gone are those brief days after the war when, with Saddam looking totally vulnerable, open dissent as well as outright rebellion flared. With the unrest now almost fully suppressed, dreams of a new regime in Iraq have given way to the old hopelessness and fear. Saddam promises democracy and greater freedom of expression, but the Iraqi people expect only despotism. Asked about anti- Saddam demonstrations in March, a Baghdad taxi driver replies, "You cannot ask such questions in this country. If I talk to you, the police will come...
...School are free to express their views on any subject in a variety of ways--in meetings with me, in letters and petitions and in rallies and demonstrations that do not disrupt the activities of others at the school or violate University rules. They do so regularly, and dissent at the Law School is not in short supply...