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Actually, the patriotic thing to do? as Sen himself asserts in his new book?would have been to walk out. In The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity Sen insists that the love of debate and dissent is as deeply entrenched in Indian culture as the love of religion and mysticism. Understanding this little-known fact, he says, is one of the keys to unlocking the puzzle that still baffles so many Western political scientists: how an impoverished and unruly country like India has turned into one of the world's most successful democracies...
...resist the evacuation, pressing their slogan, "Jews don't deport Jews." The opposition--which is dominated by an assortment of far-right settlers from the West Bank, messianic rabbis, religious extremists and restless teenagers--has virtually hijacked the disengagement issue from the Gaza residents, who voice their dissent in acts of denial. Whether they succeed in disrupting the evacuation, the protesters are intent on turning it into a test of Israel's very identity. In this showdown, Sharon's detractors--including former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who resigned from the Cabinet last week to side with the opposition--claim...
...move exposed a rare flash of dissent from University’s seven-member governing body, which appeared to stand by Summers this spring amid harsh criticism from professors...
...local planning agency uphold regulations barring development around Lake Tahoe. But while working for the first Bush Administration, Roberts helped persuade the Supreme Court in two cases to narrow the grounds on which environmental groups could sue the Federal Government. What has the greens most worried is a dissent filed by Roberts on a request for a rehearing by a California real estate developer in a case involving the threatened arroyo toad, protected under the Endangered Species Act. Roberts argued that the plaintiffs should at least be granted a second hearing by the full court because the Constitution's commerce...
...eating a single French fry in the Washington Metro; she claimed her Fourth Amendment and equal-protection rights had been violated, in part because, under the law, an adult would only have received a citation from the police. Roberts has also come down consistently, most recently in a dissent last week, in favor of police searches and seizures that were arguably conducted without probable cause. Still, last year he ordered the resentencing of a man who was being treated more or less as an equal partner in crime largely because he had been aware that his wife had stolen computers...