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Until now, fear of a devastating domestic backlash has restrained Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri from cracking down on her nation's increasingly vocal and active supporters of Osama bin Laden. Now, she may have no choice but to bite the bullet. The weekend bomb blast in Bali that killed 189, mostly foreign revelers at two local nightclubs could force Megawati to choose between Washington and the mainstream Muslim political parties on whose support she has been partly dependent...
...backlash has gone national. President Bush spoke out against the rise of remediation in a back-to-school speech on Aug. 29, and many state leaders are joining the fight. At least eight states now banish all or most remedial students from four-to two-year campuses on the theory that a state's flagship universities should not be teaching someone how to add fractions. Next year Tennessee will begin such a policy, but the state's higher-education commission has suggested something more sweeping: banning the use of state money for any remediation, even at community colleges. Similarly, legislators...
...fundamentalism that earlier this year Zia twice denied that there were any "Taliban" in her government, or even in Bangladesh. But a Bangladeshi government official tells TIME that while Zia's administration is aware of the fundamentalist threat inside the country, tackling it head-on might trigger a violent backlash. Foreign Minister Morshed Khan took the same line, telling TIME that it was better to have such groups inside the government, looking...
...promise of collective litigation may not be fully realized if hindered by public backlash to individual litigation. The public will be rightfully indignant over the absurd size of the award and the greed that clearly motivates many plaintiffs. In an already litigious society, these cases will be associated with the same kind of shameless opportunism behind, for example, the farcical McDonald’s suit this year that blames the company for a customer’s obesity...
...convince any allies other than our obedient British pal, Tony Blair, Bush turned to the U.N. to mollify foreign critics. He did not have much of a choice. It was a last attempt to form a coalition such that an invasion of Iraq would not lead to a backlash and destabilization in the Middle East...