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...that is, all the traditionally ethnic-Tibetan areas now parts of the provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Qinghai. In total, that would compromise around a quarter of China's current territory. No government in Beijing could ever contemplate such a giveaway, which would almost certainly unleash a nationalist backlash of frightening proportions...
Both the student groups and the House administrators said that the controversy was spurred by backlash on the Adams e-mail list, known as the Schmooze...
...damage the digital deluge wreaks on the music industry, however, some audiophiles still devote themselves to traditional vinyl, and Newbury Comics’ LP aisle is even more packed than the DVD or the CD sections. Flanagan said that purists have initiated a small backlash against the search-and-rip attitude of online music purchasing. “The downside of downloading music is that it gets compressed and it doesn’t sound how it should, so people are kind of falling in love again with the analog feel, throwing up the vinyl.”Palmer...
...media crtiques. “[Mezrich] got the essence of what we did very well,” Irvine says, though he admits that “certainly some of the details weren’t quite accurate or truthful.” Kaplan agrees, noting that the media backlash is actually a positive indication of being in the spotlight. “I think he made the right decision,” Kaplan says. “He wrote a New York Times bestseller that ended up being made into a Hollywood blockbuster. Can?...
...backlash is well under way. David Diggs, a junior at Michigan State University who has some 300 Facebook friends, complains, "It's annoying to get about 70 invitations a day about taking some kind of quiz or adding an application." Diggs is one of more than a million people who have joined a Facebook group that is petitioning to ban the inviting of friends on applications. (Ironically, the group encourages members to invite their friends to join the cause.) In February, Facebook responded to users' outcries by allowing people to block application invitations individually, but petitioners are demanding the ability...