Word: dissention
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...Tung would have done better to quit while he was ahead. Public discontent with him spiked sharply?over the economy, his administration's bungled handling of the SARS epidemic, and its attempt to bulldoze through the legislature antisubversion laws that many Hong Kongers felt could be used to stifle dissent. The discontent spilled into the streets on July 1, 2003, when half a million marched to demand that Tung go. China's leadership, which had been informed by Tung that the protest would be small and well contained, was not amused. A year later, after Beijing ruled out the direct...
...Removing Tung could be part of a strategy to prevent that from happening. It would take away the focal point for dissent that Tung has become, and it would show that China's leaders are responsive to public opinion in Hong Kong. Both Hu and Premier Wen Jiabao have tried to convey the image of a kinder, gentler leadership that cares for the masses, even as they maintain a tight grip on power. During the SARS epidemic, for example, Wen sacked China's Health Minister for underplaying the scale of the crisis, and impressed Hong Kongers with his apparent warmth...
...motion, which will be on the docket for the March 15 meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), asks Faculty to vote “to register dissent from a series of pronouncements by Mr. Summers that minimize the social causes of social inequality and, at times, appear to censor dissenting views on campus; and...to demand a halt to any expansion of presidential prerogatives that will facilitate the application of these pronouncements to the governance of the University...
Paloma A. Zepeda ’06, spokeswoman for the Harvard Republican Club (HRC)—a co-sponsor of Feith’s appearance—said that while her organization respects student dissent on campus, it thinks Feith has the right to speak his case...
Amid outcries of dissent, University President Lawrence H. Summers has found a fan in Lecturer on Anthropology Carole K. Hooven. A bio-anthro professor and—get this—a woman, Hooven’s support of Summer’s inflamatory comments about women in science stand in opposition to many of her colleagues in her outspoken department. And Hooven, whose class Anthropology 1365, “Sex Differences in Humans” couldn’t be timelier, is pretty well-educated on the subject...