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Hello, my name is B.J. Greenleaf, and I am a victim of network backlash...
...Will it last? Yes, but expect a public backlash...
...Minister Ahmed Maher? (Secretary of State Colin) Powell said he understood and was taking into consideration Arab objections to US military action against Iraq. 'For now, this is nothing for us to disagree on,' Powell said." Still, even that "for now" qualifier has Arab leaders fearing a destabilizing domestic backlash...
Read "Dearborn's Muslims Fear a Fort Hood Backlash...
This money-isn't-everything vogue probably originated as a backlash against the long boom years of the '90s. (Conveniently, Americans, real and fictional, tend to start rethinking the fast track just when the economy stops paying off like a rigged slot machine. The early-'90s recession saw downsized professionals pursuing the simple life and a New York City doctor finding quirky meaning in Alaska on Northern Exposure.) But this backlash isn't about just money. It's about a general cultural exhaustion, about moving from post-Vietnam mistrust of institutions (The X-Files) to respect for them (The West...