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Duke’s senior vice president of public relations and government affairs, John F. Burness, also said that the backlash has not made Brodhead more willing to consider leaving Duke, according to the Duke Chronicle...
...think a lot of us are concerned that the harder we push publicly, the more backlash there will be,” says a senior female professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the search process. “We don’t want to impair the chances of the really excellent women who are in the pool...
...Still, not much has changed in the Administration's policy positions. And despite the urgent pleas of such key U.S. allies as Jordan's King Abdullah - and even Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair - for a speedy resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there would likely be a strong backlash on Capitol Hill against any move to tie progress in Iraq to progress on the Israeli-Palestinian front...
...Islam will likely be with words rather than gestures. But no one in Vatican circles I've spoken with can imagine how he can pick back up where he left off in Regensburg, directly questioning the historical and philosophical foundations of Islam, without setting off another backlash. In Turkey, he repeatedly spoke about religious liberty, but made sure never to specifically cite Islam. The risk is that a combination of careful words and John Paul-like gestures will dilute Benedict's potential impact on this issue. This points to a more general issue about the Ratzinger papacy. Sure, a newfound...
...backlash to Lauer's Cronkitization was quick, for several reasons. First: dude, we're talking Matt Lauer here. Second: Cronkite's language--"We are mired in stalemate"--was far stronger. Third: some newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor, quietly started using "civil war" earlier (as did TIME). Last: polls and common sense indicated that most Americans already believed Iraq's sectarian fighting was a civil...