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...backlash to that policy change led to the formation of a committee to review and make recommendations on Harvard’s support services for victims of sexual violence and on preventive, educational and outreach programs to reduce the incidence of sexual violence in the College...
Brooks himself has changed his habits. As a Navy midshipman, he was required to wear his uniform to classes every Monday. But fearing the backlash against the war and the U.S. armed forces, he says he has been instructed to keep the uniform in his closet until further notice...
...seeing it ended as quickly as possible. The speediest possible elimination of Saddam's regime is driven by concerns ranging from sparing the lives of Americans and Iraqis; maintaining the support of allies, most of whom have lent their support in defiance of domestic public opinion; minimizing the backlash against those in the Arab world that have offered open or discreet support; and minimizing the socio-economic trauma of the war that would complicate efforts to stabilize a post-Saddam Iraq. The plan to drop as many bombs on Iraq in the first 48 hours of the war as were...
From the 200-person rally over his randomization plan that took place even before he took office, to the 750-person protest over PBHA, to the backlash against the new sexual assault policy he pushed through last May, Lewis’ reforms have often met with harsh disapproval from students...
...Such sudden and vertiginous popularity was bound to provoke a backlash, and in Indonesia it came not from teens who discovered a newer, hotter idol but from Muslim clerics condemning a false one. In a country obsessed with thy neighbor's morality, Inul's dancing was deemed pornographic. In early February, the Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI), concerned that Inul's performances encouraged lustful acts, declared that her dancing and costume were circumscribed by its July 2002 fatwa against pornography. Authorities in devout Yogyakarta banned Inul from performing, fearing that she would "degrade the morality of the highly civilized and educated...