Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refrain from violating. Why must I be forced to accept the majority belief that human beings possess certain natural rights that deserve to be respected and protected by law? How can this tenet be forced upon me? Isn't our system designed to protect individuals like me who possess unpopular views and who want to live according to those views...
While prisoners are fairly unpopular these days in most parts of the country, some 20,000 Louisianans were willing to wait in line for hours and pay $7 ($3 for the kids) to attend the sold-out shows at the state's only maximum-security prison. Parents with a sense of humor took photos of their children behind bars in a replica of an Angola prison cell. Business was also brisk at the "Lifers' Sno-Cones" refreshment booth, manned by a murderer and an aggravated rapist. In a nice Jailhouse Rock touch, an all-convict band named Pros and Cons...
...Nasserist slogans calling for Pan-Arabian and the destruction of the Jewish state. Admittedly, Sadat's peace initiative had tremendous historical as well as symbolic value, but it was never intended to transcend the realm of symbolism. Sadat was celebrated as a hero in the West but remained largely unpopular at home and was labeled a traitor all over the Arab world. The years of "cold peace" following his death signaled Egypt's reluctance to translate the symbolic peace into "real" peace that could benefit both countries, economically or otherwise. President Mubarak, preoccupied with restoring Egypt's diplomatic ties with...
Disciplining members of AALARM for violating poster guidelines would send a dangerous message to other groups with unpopular messages: if your ideas are controversial, you must be careful about sharing them with others. Harvard views itself as an institution in pursuit of truth. In moving towards the truth, we will have to deal with all kinds of arguments, be they good, bad or indifferent. The last thing we need here is a "chilling effect" that discourages people with unpopular views from speaking out. We should not stifle campus discourse just when it appears that Harvard is becoming politically energized again...
...community, we're better off with this person out of jail than in jail.'" The practice is probably legal under a common-law doctrine allowing jurors to override the law if their own sense of justice demands it. But it is a radical act, used historically to undermine an unpopular authority like the British crown in the 1700s. Butler knows this. Of Baltimore, where nearly 60% of young black men are under court supervision, he says, "African Americans perceive that as a police state...