Word: dissents
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Increasing the tension level were fears that dissent could turn into violence. Islamic fundamentalists who are seeking to overthrow Mubarak warned delegates not to come to Cairo. In response, the government deployed a 14,000- strong police force with the sole assignment of protecting the expected 20,000 conference participants. But no one could guarantee peace in the streets -- or any kind of meaningful consensus inside the meeting hall...
...trenchant polemic that appears in the summer issue of the leftist quarterly Dissent (est. circ. 10,000), Genovese argues that many American radicals were, in effect, accomplices to mass murder. Many U.S. advocates of a Viet Cong victory in Vietnam, for example, have never accepted that what they considered a radical egalitarian democracy was in fact a cruel totalitarian dictatorship. Until the left is willing to re-examine its ideological premises and admit its past mistakes, argues Genovese, it will have no moral credibility to attack such ongoing societal ills as racism and sexism. "The left will have to clean...
...well as the left have taken note of Genovese's gauntlet. In the New York Post, conservative editorial-page editor Eric Breindel described the essay as a "stunning and lucid document." In the Aug. 15 issue of the right-wing National Review, editor John O'Sullivan writes that the Dissent article and the subsequent responses to it mark "the beginning, not the end, of a debate." But in the same Dissent issue where Genovese's essay appears are six mostly negative reactions from academics. Alice Kessler- Harris of Rutgers University accuses Genovese of being as self-righteous as the radicals...
...conformity, he says "the situation on the campuses is beneath contempt." Many of the unrepentant leftists he wants to come clean are either tolerant of or else advocates for a "new version of totalitarianism" in academe that seeks to suppress all views other than their own. In Dissent Genovese writes, "We of the left may claim for ourselves no rights that we are not prepared to grant others...
Haiti's military leadership is growing less tolerant of dissent as the threat of U.S. invasion looms. Last night, hours after the regime had declared a state of siege, a truckful of soldiers and armed civilians opened fire on a former member of the Haitain Senate, Reynald Georges, an outspoken political opponent who appeared on international television and in foreign newspapers in recent days criticizing the junta. Georges was in hiding this evening after a private clinic removed three bullets from his back and arm. Haiti's de facto authorities, meanwhile, ordered local news outlets to stop issuing "foreign propaganda...