Word: dissents
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...protest seems to be a way of expressingdissent, and I think that's inevitable," Clarkesaid. "The majority of people on this campus haveexpressed dissent...
...Supreme Court decision was not unanimous. Justice Harry Blackmun, in a dissent dear to champions of the rights of mentally impaired defendants, wrote that ``a defendant who is utterly incapable of conducting his own defense cannot be considered `competent' to make such a decision, any more than a person who chooses to leap out of a window in the belief that he can fly.'' It is quite possible that for the next few months, auditors of the Long Island trial will be treated to the dubious spectacle of the gesticulations such a person makes--before he hits the ground...
...Washington Post Co., the New York Times Co. and Whitney Communications, published an article by Lingle on its opinion page. Lingle, then a senior fellow in European studies at the National University of Singapore, wrote that ``intolerant regimes in the region reveal considerable ingenuity in their methods of suppressing dissent.'' Among several methods he listed was ``relying upon a compliant judiciary to bankrupt opposition politicians.'' The statement did not mention any country by name...
...recent dissent from The Crimson Staff's position ("Staff Contradicts Position," Opinion, Jan. 23, 1995), Jamie W. Billett '95 points out the irony that the staff supports decentralization in the case of moving registration from Memorial Hall to the Houses, but is against decentralization on the issue of local determination of rent control. I'd like to point out a little irony of my own. Mr. Billett says he supports rent control, but look at what "control" has done in the past. Such evil forces as Hitler, the Russians and my sixth grade science teacher all used "controls" to carry...
...only one who found the circumstance of his execution implausible, if not illegal. Though the U.S. Supreme Court curtly dismissed his final appeal by a vote of 6 to 3, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a sharp / dissent. "I find this course of events deeply troubling," he wrote. Stevens said that if the prosecutor's arguments at the trial of Jacobs' sister were correct, "then Jacobs is innocent of capital murder." Said George Kendall of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund: "The state should have reopened his case and, at the least, vacated his death sentence, if not his conviction." Even...