Word: dissents
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...seems to me that this school is supposed to be the kind of place where diversity is appreciated and embraced, not repressed. And yet Benjamin J. Heller and Brad Edward White seem to disagree. In a dissent to a staff editorial they co-authored in The Crimson (March 2), they essentially stated that all athletics should lose all funding. So, athletics is not the kind of diversity they are looking for, I guess...
Although the United Nations deployed human rights observers to Haiti shortly after Clinton's inauguration (and partially at his insistence), the Haitian military has continued to punish political dissent, and applications for political asylum have increased dramatically...
...other evidence -- of shooting a Texas police officer. The court ruled that Herrera could not reopen his case years later by producing statements from four people who said his brother was the actual killer. The brother could hardly dispute the claim, since he died in 1984. In a dissent, Justice Harry Blackmun argued that strong late claims of innocence must be heard. "The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder," he declared...
...government has vast legal powers to stifle dissent: an Internal Security Act that allows detention without trial, sharp restrictions on any statements that might stir racial or religious tension, and tough libel and slander laws. These have cowed most political opposition. "There is an undercurrent of fear," says a young man who left to live overseas. But Information Minister George Yeo does not apologize for "a political process that forces people to speak responsibly...
Nevertheless, we dissent because the editorial is wrong on two counts...