The only notable dissident is Daniel Libeskind of Ground Zero fame, who has questioned the seemliness of building for an authoritarian and undemocratic regime, under which construction workers endure the most primitive of conditions, with minimal safety provisions and poor wages.
The most notable dissident of all, Miss Suu Kyi, under house arrest for most of the past two decades, has declined to test whether the ban applies to her too.Even so, change can sometimes come from the bleakest beginnings.
Notable dissident Grand Ayatollahs Yousef Saanei, Assad Bayat-Zanjani, and Ali-Mohammad Dastgheyb, who have been the primary clerical targets of the government since their support for protests following the disputed 2009 presidential elections, have issued statements against the detentions.
It is in his role as observer and critic, whether his stay in the United States ends up being long or short, that Mr. Chen can make the most of the spotlight that has been placed on him (a spotlight that will surely fade over time, as it has for other notable dissidents).
"Solzhenitsyn is a notable writer, but his political views are an embarrassment even to his fellow dissidents," Mr. Kissinger wrote in a memo.
The Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, sent a memo through his executive assistant, George Springsteen, to Ford's national-security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, saying, "Solzhenitsyn is a notable writer, but his political views are an embarrassment even to his fellow-dissidents.
With a notable exception.
Greenpeace is a notable exception.
