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...Harvard doctoral candidate says she worries she will be victim of a similar anti-Israel backlash in the United States if her Zionist views become widely publicized. “I feel that my career is at stake,” she says. “But once I get the job, once I get tenure, you’re not going to shut...
...involved in politics, but by relying on antiquated gender stereotypes to promote her own candidacy, she only perpetuates the gender distinction. Her campaign rhetoric implicitly suggests that when it comes to politics, voters ought to consider the sex of the candidate. This is a stance that will only cause backlash against the very group she is attempting to advance...
...outgrown the plaid skirts and kneesocks?). And throw in all the other stresses and strains of being the world's most scrutinized 21-year-old pop star - the grueling video shoots, the countless interviews, the endless grind of disrobing for magazine covers, not to mention the hurtful backlash from conservative Britney-haters like Kendel Ehrlich, the Governor of Maryland's wife, who announced her desire to "shoot" Spears (while speaking at a domestic- violence conference, of all places) - and it's easy to see why the poor girl got the flu. The only surprise is that she didn't think...
...interesting mathematically, theoretically...and the idea of it.” He says, “I didn’t mean for it to be released so quickly because I wanted to control peoples’ being offended by it.” Zuckerberg says that the backlash wasn’t as bad as he would have expected. “People were pretty respectful. They weren‘t like ‘You’re a moron.’” Trying to solve the problem of insulting students, he first attempted...
Outrage about executive salaries is missing a couple of decimals in Europe. In September New York Stock Exchange boss Dick Grasso resigned amid a backlash over his $188 million deferred-compensation package. Around the same time, the chairman of the world's third largest food retailer, scandal-tainted Netherlands-based Royal Ahold (whose U.S. chains include Giant Food and Stop & Shop), stepped down following national outrage over his failure to inform investors of the two-year, $6.8 million contract he gave new CEO Anders Moberg. The French government pressured Pierre Bilger, the ex-CEO of engineering giant Alstom, into returning...