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...president.The National Organization for Women and other women’s groups have issued sharply-worded statements opposing Summers’ potential appointment that may have succeeded in knocking him off Obama’s short list, according to The Politico, a Capital Hill newspaper.This round of Summers backlash has focused on his comments at a 2005 conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in which he suggested that “intrinsic” physiological differences between men and women may in part account for the relative lack of women in top science and engineering jobs.But in fact...
...Young suggests that greater transparency, including disclosing risk to investors, could rebuild shaken confidence in the industry. Indeed, given the populist backlash against complicated financial mechanisms, tighter regulation now seems inevitable. In the U.S., Congress has scheduled hearings to examine the role of hedge funds in the ongoing financial crisis. "It's going to be quite a slog to get really serious reforms," Young says. "But I'd argue it is in the industry's interest to promote greater transparency...
...could see some kind of backlash in their hometowns in Java but I don't think there will be on a larger scale as people have seen the suffering and the majority of Muslims disagree with what they did," says Masdar Hilmy, a professor at the State Islamic University of Islam in Surabaya and an expert on radical Islam. "Mass organizations like the Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah have also called on their followers to not be influenced by radical propaganda...
...United States, he said, is close to enacting such “green” tariffs—the Lieberman-Warner bill is a recently failed example—though it may face backlash tariffs from entities like the European Union for not meeting a high environmental standard domestically...
...Fernández and Kirchner retain the support of the strong Peronist Party structure, while the opposition remains as divided now as it was during last year's elections. Peronist Senator Eric Calcagno sees the President's current troubles as a backlash from Argentina's business establishment against her stated aim of more evenly distributing Argentina's wealth. "After the economic crisis in 2001, the Argentine establishment accepted becoming a minority partner in a political project it doesn't really agree with, but now that the economy has been solved, the message is: We want you out," says Calcagno...