Word: protestation
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According to Leahy, the Defense Department attempted just that last year when its officials tried to block foreign scholars' access to a supercomputer partly-owned by Harvard. After a sharp protest from the University and other schools, the Defense Department agreed to allow Eastern bloc researchers from overseas to work at the computer facility--located in Princeton--except those with links to intelligence services...
...School officials had met several times prior to the day of the speech with the police, HLS Republicans and with those who wished to protest Dr. Calero's views, to plan for various contingencies...
...more than a fortnight, his homeland had been torn by violent protest against its Chinese occupiers. Now, from his place of exile in Dharmsala, the Himalayan hill town in northern India where he has lived for most of the past 28 years, the Dalai Lama spoke. The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism sought to explain the rioting that had rocked Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, on the other side of the Himalayas, and the harshness of the Chinese response. Inevitably, Peking blamed the Dalai Lama, 52, for instigating the demonstrations that inflamed his people both at home and in exile...
Bork is resigned to the near impossibility of his confirmation. His refusal to withdraw was a protest against the efforts to depict him as a right-wing ideologue. More important, he saw the quixotic effort as a way to defy the politicization of the confirmation process. "For the sake of the federal judiciary and the American people," declared Bork last week, "that must not happen...
Orenstein also claims that the cancellations "prevented [individuals] from exercising their right to protest." Right to protest? If protest necessarily involves an infringement of other individuals' Constitutional right to speak, as Orenstein implies (and as seems to be the case at Harvard), then the entire concept of a "right to protest" is a fallacy. If a protester's arguments are not strong enough to stand on their own, they should be thought out until they are strong enough, and then be presented in their own forum, to those who wish to listen. Consistent with Orenstein's ideas on abdication...