Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...epiphany came a decade ago, when as a free-lance writer he stumbled into the Well, cyberspace's oldest and best-known hole-in-the-wall. For whatever reasons, online communication tends to be a dissent amplifier. You say something half in jest; the bad half gets picked up and further inflamed. The next thing you know, war has erupted, and people end up not talking for a year. Rheingold took it on himself to parachute in and reconnect disembodied souls...
...behalf of what is now a small but growing political minority. There are no more sweeping government solutions. More importantly, there are fewer and fewer alleged solutions that are even politically viable--hence, we will be left with a United States President rightly described by The Crimson's editorial dissent ("Lesser of Two Evils," November 4) as "ideologically bankrupt." Government cannot keep pace with the dynamic forces of even a nominally free society...
...Filipino. "I want the company to speak in one voice, and there's no room here for those that don't share that view," she explains. "I know where I want this company to go, and I know how I want this company to get there." Honest dissent is fine, she says, "but my motto is, 'I don't take any crap...
...Knox, who taught him more than 40 years ago at Yale and whose introduction to the new Odyssey is marvelously informative. Fagles reworked and revised some passages more than 20 times. His labors now ended, Fagles pronounces himself "bereft" at leaving Homer's world. He believes, against considerable scholarly dissent, that Homer actually existed and shaped his epics from a long oral tradition. "It's awfully hard to prove," Fagles says, "but I'm an incurable romantic...
...lone voice was heard in dissent, that of Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield...