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Yesterday’s plan passed by a margin of 18-4-1. Much of the dissent focused on whether the UC’s survey was statistically legitimate...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UC Proposes Changes In Academic Calendar | 4/10/2007 | See Source »

...think it was an attempt to intimidate the press - both independent and mainstream - and those who engage in civil dissent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Josh Wolf | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...privacy could lead to challenges of state laws that forbade such things as gay marriage and bigamy. "State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity are ... called into question by today's decision," wrote Justice Antonin Scalia, in a withering dissent he read aloud page by page from the bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Incest Be Legal? | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...Such harsh punishment of dissent is not surprising in Vietnam, where the Communist Party remains firmly in control despite 20 years of economic liberalization. What was new is that the court spectacle in the ancient imperial capital of Hue was so open. Politically sensitive trials especially tend to be held quietly and - perhaps - announced after the fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Show (and Tell) Trial in Vietnam | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

...from the child dying of malaria to the village without clean water, conditions in Africa are an affront to every value we Europeans have ever seen fit to put on paper. We see in Somalia and Sudan what happens if more militant forces fill the void and stir dissent within what is, for the most part, a pro-Western and moderate Muslim population. (Nearly half of Africa's people are devotees of Islam.) So whether as a moral or strategic imperative, it's folly to let this fire rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Time for Miracles | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

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