Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dissent on the "Vote Yes on Question 2" editorial (Opinion, Nov. 2) by Melissa R. Langsam and Noah D. Oppenheim makes little sense. Their first objection to Question 2 is that it does not prevent individuals from personally financing their campaigns...
Regarding "Hate Crimes Too Broad" (Dissent, Oct. 14) and the letters in the Oct. 19 Crimson: Unfortunately, long before Matthew Shepard's murder, conservative groups around the country mobilized against hate crime laws. They base their opposition on a number of myths...
...Hate Crime Too Broad" (Dissent, Oct. 14): First, many people (including myself) actually have friends and family members who are gay; so this is an issue we all have some interest in. Second, there actually are some people out there who hate other people just because they are gay, so despite the assertions of Marc J. Ambinder '01, some of our friends and family are at risk...
...Hate Crime Too Broad" (Dissent, Oct. 14): Criminal law has always taken into account "the content of criminal motive." Just as society punishes a coldly premeditated murder more harshly than one committed in the heat of argument, just as we deal more severely with people who willfully violate the law than those who do so by accident, so, too, should we add increased penalties for criminals whose attacks are motivated by hatred...
...leader returns to court Monday to face new charges of sexual misconduct, while police are also considering sedition charges against his wife, Wan Azizah, who has begun to take the reins of the fledgling opposition movement. Mahathir won't find it quite as easy, however, to deal with the dissent of the world market...