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...There would be a backlash to Congress bailing out billionaires who lost a few hundred million as a result of the Madoff scandal," says Evans. "But there are people who are affected by the Ponzi scheme who I think we all agree are deserving of a helping hand...
...least one of the absent leaders, Prime Minister Brown, is attempting to face down a backlash at home, while in Edinburgh, members of the Scottish parliament have been debating their government's handling of the affair. Critics of both governments hope the controversy will weaken their hold on power. The terrorist atrocity that killed 270 passengers, crew and Lockerbie residents more than three decades ago continues to reverberate...
Goldman's CEO and other top execs are set for another huge payday this year, although some of his former partners wonder about the backlash against him and the firm as a result. Blankfein is worried too. How is he to juggle the firm's great success - and the attendant increasing bonus expectations of the high achievers working at the firm - with the inevitable public outcry that will result from paying out multiple millions of dollars in bonuses at a time when people all over the country are still reeling from a financial calamity largely of Wall Street's making...
...integral part of that brand. But with its 2010 catalogue now arriving in mailboxes, the supplier of headboards and coffee tables to the world's thrifty and trendy has switched to what it sees as a more functional typeface: Verdana. In the process, it has provoked an instantaneous global backlash, the kind that can only happen on the Internet. (Read about Ikea in TIME's Design...
...bound by Shari'a law for certain issues while non-Muslims are processed through civil courts. While alcohol consumption is illegal for Muslims according to Shari'a law, many people of the Islamic faith in Malaysia do drink, and prosecution for such a crime is rare. Perhaps fearing a backlash from Islamic officials, Kartika lodged a police report on Monday saying she is not a party to the decision to postpone the caning. "We don't want to be blamed later," she said, "[by people who might say] that we had avoided punishment and embarrassed Islam." (See pictures of Cairo...