Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When American victory was apparent, 91 percent of Americans supported the war. Thousands of yellow ribbons sold for 50 cents at gas stations and convenience stores. Even activists who lived and breathed resistance to the war admit that their view was unpopular...
...said that, as far as the Gulf War was concerned, "the time for debate is over." We found Hornstein's attempt to halt discussion despicable. "The time for debate is never over." we insisted. "Never." Debate educates, debate enlightens. Debate prevents antagonism from festering beneath the surface. Debate gives unpopular intelligent viewpoints a chance to be aired. Debate gives unpopular idiotic viewpoints a chance to look idiotic...
...professors say the stifling of such unpopular opinions poses a dangerous threat to freedom of speech and scholarship. "The test of a university as an open-minded institution is the degree in which these positions are welcomed and treated," says Edward O. Wilson, Baird professor of science, who has also come under fire for his assertions that genetics determine social behavior...
...Harvard Commencement, Dershowitz staged a one-man protest against the appearance. (The index entry reads "Dershowitz, Alan, protests Nazis honored at Harvard, 90-91.") Weizsaecker's crime? As an attorney, he defended his father, a high-ranking Nazi diplomat, in a war crimes trial. Representing an unpopular criminal defendant! Why of all the heinous, rotten, despicable acts...
...give up my aspirations to serve my country." But hidden within these traditionalist sentiments, attributed to Zhu Haihong, a student studying in the U.S., was a subversive message. When the Chinese characters are read diagonally from upper right to lower left, a slap at the country's repressive and unpopular Premier becomes clear: Li Peng must step down to appease the people's anger. The secret slogan is the talk of Beijing. Meanwhile, enraged government officials have launched an investigation into the "political accident...