Word: backlashers
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...That attitude is producing a backlash at home. Students, enraged by Wahid's absence during the slaughter of the Madurese, have called for him to fly straight back from Saudi Arabia to Kalimantan. Otherwise, they've taunted, don't come back at all. Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri made a conspicuous visit to the site of the massacres at Sampit...
...Williams used his father's gun, and under California law that means the father could be open to criminal prosecution. The backlash against violence is reverberating beyond Williams' family as well: Thursday, four students who reportedly heard Williams talking about his planned rampage and who dismissed his plans as "a joke" were barred from returning to school for the rest of the year. And while school officials insisted the suspension was for these students' own safety, there is an indisputable air of retribution about the action. Why didn't you tell anyone? You could have saved two lives and incalculable...
...from monitoring elections - most significantly the June presidential race - for the next six years. The decision is seen as a stepped-up campaign to discourage moderate President Mohammed Khatami from running for reelection, rather than as a move to facilitate rigging the June vote itself. Flustered by the hardline backlash, the cautious Khatami may decline to run if the election turns into a confrontation with hardliners. "The President, personally, is the target of these pressures," his brother, Mohammed Reza Khatami, told the students. "He is (their) major obstacle, which all these efforts are aimed at removing...
...1970s, when the inevitable backlash began, two arguments emerged. The one that drew more media attention charged that the test was inherently biased against blacks and Latinos, who to this day score worse on average than whites. The other was that SAT scores measure only the ability to take the SAT - a skill that, depending on your ability to pay, you could pick up in a coaching class (a growth industry that in 1999 alone raked in $400 million). Aside from that class inequality, the test's failure to measure anything meaningful also meant that kids were spending...
...real threat. The risk lies not just with potential babies born deformed, as many animal clones are; not just with desperate couples and cancer patients and other potential "clients" whose hopes may be raised and hearts broken and life savings wiped out. The immediate risk is that a backlash against renegade science might strike at responsible science as well...