Word: visitores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...right of free speech and movement, this community has experienced enough protest activity to realize that more is at stake. For instance, while everyone has the right to speak, should everyone have the right to speak without difficulty or voiced opposition? University principles dictate that students should not make visitors their prisoners, no matter how unpopular the visitors' views. But should every visitor have the right to move anywhere and everywhere like an honored guest? And, perhaps most importantly, who should enforce these rights and how and when should they be enforced...
Rushdie the polemicist, however, tends to dart about these surfaces, fluently gliding over complexities. The dictator the Sandinistas overthrew, he asserts, was a rapist and a castrator; therefore, to call the Sandinistas totalitarian is "obscene." Somehow, the syllogism does not quite scan. Even criticisms of the leadership the visitor takes to be compliments, signs not of dissent but of democracy in action...
...without him; Sara and Max, their two small children, will be fine with the plans already made for their care back home, and Jeffrey will join her in Iran as soon as he can. Chloe agrees reluctantly but with a little thrill as well. She knows that another American visitor scheduled to appear in Shiraz is Dr. Hugh Monroe, with whom she has tentatively begun a love affair...
...room in the basement of Harvard Hall early in the morning, even though tickets weren't available until 2 p.m. Even though Harvard's opponent will not be known until today, many of the Crimson faithful quickly claimed positions in line to purchase the best seats, regardless of the visitor...
...strategic look. Even if we win, do we lose? Are they going to say we will be in the confessional next?" He ultimately approved the bugging, but insisted the conversations could be recorded only when agents watching the judge's chambers had good reason to suspect that the visitor would offer a bribe. The case, known as Operation Greylord, resulted in the conviction of seven judges and 17 other public officials...