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...backlash against the posters and the creation of bond was really a wakeup call," Morgan says. "Are we fulfilling the role we should be fulfilling? Is BOND doing it better...
...Whether or not Americans are oblivious about the past, it's troubling that they seem relatively heedless about the way that others may see them in the present. The New York Times has done an interesting roundup piece about "a growing backlash of anti-Americanism in Europe, especially in France, where a member of parliament named No?l Mam?re has written a book called "No Thanks, Uncle Sam," a catalogue of American gaucheries and moral derelictions ranging from too much crime and too many guns to capital punishment to inadequate health care for the poor. For all of my life, Europeans...
...which will almost certainly stiffen the resolve of Elian's Miami relatives to defy the INS demand that they sign a pledge to hand the boy over once they've exhausted their appeal process, appears designed to court Florida's Cuban-American voters, but may spark something of a backlash elsewhere. "It's difficult to see how this can actually help him," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty. "The Cuban-American exile leadership is staunchly Republican, and the opinion polls show that most Americans believe this kid ought to be back with his father...
Obviously, last week's X-box launch was timed to steal a little bit of Sony's thunder. But as if Fate were trying to say it didn't need any help, thank you very much, there were also signs that a PlayStation 2 backlash is brewing. The machines that gamers brought back from Japan failed to wow the influential hobbyist magazines, largely because the games that came with them--titles like Ridge Racer V and Street Fighter Ex3--have not improved as exponentially as the graphics. "It's like a prettier tablecloth, but the food's just the same...
Thomas Patterson, Bradlee professor of press and politics at the Kennedy School of Government, said Bradley peaked in November and December due to voter backlash against Gore and the "easygoing" nature of the early part of the campaign...