Word: dissention
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...debate on the preparations. And in the wake of Summers’ comments on innate differences between men and women, Daniel S. Fisher, professor of physics and applied physics, said, “For the president, it is fine to be provocative, but for faculty, serious questions and constructive dissent are squelched.” Taken in isolation, incidents like these could be minimized and ignored. But that is not the case here. No matter what Summers himself believes he meant or did, it is clear that a critical mass of the faculty has completely lost confidence in his leadership...
Addressing those professors who criticized him at Tuesday’s Faculty meeting for fostering what they called a toxic atmosphere at the University, Summers said he was open to dissent...
...commitment is also belied by the steps it has taken over the past two years to repress Iraqi dissent, from ordering troops to open fire on peaceful demonstrators to blocking the publication of certain newspapers to shutting down the offices of Iraq’s trade unions and other civic groups. We have simply failed to pave the path towards a free society. Instead, we have followed the road to Abu Ghraib...
...Islam Gaddafi, the second son of Libya's leader. Seif says he spent most of 2003 coaxing his father into transforming his 35-year-old revolution, which Gaddafi has led since he waged a military coup in 1969. The aging revolutionary has ruled over a centralized socialist system, repressing dissent and supporting armed attacks against American targets. Seif, 32, is believed by many analysts and diplomats to be Gaddafi's probable political heir. He is a doctoral student at the London School of Economics, a skilled artist and a keen tennis player who frequents the courts of Tripoli's Regatta...
...both to people and policies without apparent regard for performance, lay at the heart of the demands for contrition. His critics deplored the stubbornness that often prevents him from stretching beyond the limits of his experience. When it comes to setting policy, they argued, the risks of shutting out dissent and refusing to adjust course have become increasingly clear. But when it comes to running for office, his aides felt, there was a great advantage in having a candidate who set a strategy and then stuck to it as well as to his team...