A PRESS junket for British journalists has annoyed the dissident intelligentsia of Damascus.

一场面向英国记者的媒体招待会惹恼了大马士革的异议知识分子。

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Most important, Haggis wasn't an obscure dissident; he was a celebrity, and the church, from its inception, has depended on celebrities to lend it prestige.

最重要的是，哈吉斯并不是一个不起眼的反对派；他是名人，而这个教会从它创立之初就依靠名人来提高自己的声誉。

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Less well known is that Mbeki developed his ideas while surfing the Internet. That was how he became aware of a small group of dissident US scientists who disputed the consensus view on HIV/AIDS.

鲜为人知的是，贝基曾在互联网上发表过他的意见，因而他知道有少部分美国科学家对此持不同意见，他们曾质疑过公认的关于艾滋病及艾滋病毒的观点。

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Longtime dissident Miklos Haraszti co-founded the Hungarian democratic opposition movement in the mid-1970s.

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