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...prime-time Channel 4 News, describes as a virtual tabloid newspaper: "There was something for everyone - glamour, sport, Blair bouncing a ball on his head or holding a guitar. It took a long time to discover that it was more about presentation than content." This discovery provoked a backlash, but Snow thinks that's unfair. "People condemn Campbell and Blair for a wasted opportunity," he says, "but they underestimate how badly Britain needed them. Britain was a gray, disappointed, depressed place. Campbell and Blair created the most incredible uplift." The press secretary's style, however - viciously witty, combative...
...Justice Ministry," jokes one aide. "He hardly makes any calls - and seldom takes them, no matter who it is." But critics say this attention to the grains of fact may have blinded him to the broader implications of the Katsav case, and the risk of a public backlash. His supporters disagree. Says Shlomo Cohen, head of the Israeli Bar Association, "Mazuz is honest, professional and courageous." Still, says Cohen, "I was disappointed that he agreed to a suspended sentence for Katsav...
...months the government of general turned President Pervez Musharraf has been threatening to crack down against the madrasahs' radicals but has held back for fear of a conservative backlash. I was inside the mosque compound on July 3 when the assault finally came...
...industry's handling of tarmac delays - now supports the Bureau's improvement of its data collection and even issued a press release the day before the BTS began its review. "When it gets out that the airlines knew the flight data was inaccurate, there's going to be a backlash against them," Mogel says of the ATA. "Obviously they've been strategizing about how to handle this so that they're on the right side...
Previous attempts at reform, however, have been met with hostility by the governments of Europe's wine-producing countries. And in the face of the inevitable backlash, the question is whether Fischer Boel will be able to drain the lake, or merely decant...