Word: dissention
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...this year’s labor protest, a building takeover seemed out of the question, leaving the undergraduate activists to adopt a less confrontational—but perhaps more dangerous—method of dissent...
...cover story for The Atlantic Monthly, Brooks described a dystopic Princeton campus populated with students who robotically over-achieve, failing to dissent or engage with the world around them and locating success only within themselves. “[They] are goal-oriented. An activity…is rarely an end in itself,” Brooks wrote. “It is a means for self-improvement, résumé-building, and enrichment. College is just one step on the continual stairway of advancement...
...ultimately addressed the Justice Department's concern about the surveillance programs. The weeks of recent hearings launched by Gonzales' firing of eight U.S. Attorneys have pried mountains of discovery from the Administration about the dismissals, but Comey's recounting of that night offered a glimpse into the drama of dissent that took place long before Gonzales met his current troubles. It's tempting to find comfort in the fact that off-camera, at least, these powerful men had been so passionately divided over issues of law and liberty. And Bush did ultimately yield to Ashcroft, Comey and Mueller. But just...
...people from peaceful protest,” she said. Provost and Gould-Wartofsky both said that Harvard should issue a public apology, which did not appear in the May 1 statement. “Harvard has to make an active and public commitment to making free speech and peaceful dissent a mainstay of this campus,” Lee said. Gould-Wartofsky, Provost, and Lee were represented by Daniel Beck, an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild, who sported a black tie adorned with anarchist symbols at the hearing. Roosevelt was represented by Robert LeBlanc, a public defender. Gould-Wartofsky...
...Harvard has to make an active and public commitment to making free speech and peaceful dissent a mainstay of this campus,” Lee said...