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...leader Benjamin Netanyahu, is losing support to parties more extreme than his own. Still, the factors that restrained Israel from launching an attack on Gaza until now remain in place, and the likelihood of an escalation in the confrontation in the days and weeks ahead - and the negative regional backlash it may promote - will probably mark a diplomatic setback for Israel. (Read TIME's top 10 news stories of the year...
...maybe - the whole thing is just a canard, the backlash against a wave of political correctness that swept the U.S. in the late '90s, resulting in some strange new concessions to cultural sensitivity: cities insisting on calling the telltale conifers "holiday trees," efforts to ban the pleasantry "Merry Christmas" and crackdowns on the use of holiday nativity scenes and other religious iconography. But to many, the War on Christmas is a hyperbolic construct that blows the problem out of proportion. "There is no war on Santa," Michelle Goldberg wrote on Salon.com in 2005. "What there is, rather, is the burgeoning...
...Iraq and Afghanistan, they have also killed civilians and stoked a raging anti-American backlash. In addition, extending the fight against the Islamists to the pirates may make friends of two of the most dangerous groups in Somalia, who until now have been enemies. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates underlined those concerns in Bahrain. "With the level of information we have at the moment, we're not in a position to do that kind of land-based operation," he said, adding any such intervention would need to "minimize collateral damage...
...last game however, it fared much like its namesake did against the British on Long Island in 1776, as George Washington was routed by Maryland, falling 76-53. Rather than giving the Crimson hope with that result, the blowout has Harvard coach Tommy Amaker concerned about Colonial backlash against his team tomorrow. “They’re coming off their worst performance and we’re their next game, so we’re going to get their completely best shot,” he said. Getting over the draining loss Wednesday to get up for tomorrow?...
...been since 13—precocious,” he said.But after a CEB-organized Pep Rally featuring the popular remix-artist Girl Talk came to a premature end due to crowd control issues this November, no amount of precocity could forestall the backlash from frustrated concert-goers.Gossip Geek, an anonymous Harvard blog, declared Schwartz’s political campaign over after the debacle, in a headline reading: “Girl Talk Rocks Campus for Five Minutes, Tells Us that Everything ‘Fucking Sucks,’ Sinks Ben Schwartz’s Political Career...