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...Bush team is praying that McCain's direct mail to Catholics backfires. "People resent being manipulated based on who they are," says a Pataki adviser. "But if no backlash kicks in, we'll have to do something." Pataki wants Bush to go before a Fundamentalist group and speak out against bigotry. McCain's allies have their own dreams. "We'd like to see Bush touring Catholic neighborhoods, telling everyone he's not a bigot," says...
Fearing a consumer backlash, New Zealand King Salmon, a major producer of Chinook salmon--the largest Pacific salmon--announced last week that it was suspending its gene-modification experiments. Entis, by contrast, believes he can win acceptance of his supersalmon through public education. "We have to show we have nothing to hide," he says...
...their part, Fallahian and Rafsanjani have denounced Ganji's writings as lies. Even some of Iran's liberals, fearing a hard-line backlash against the reform camp, believe he goes too far. "We need to make sure that our approach is measured," says Morteza Mardihah, a columnist for the Tehran daily Asr-e-Azadegan. "With Ganji, it is like passing a car accident. Sometimes reality is too harsh--and unnecessary to look...
...Variations for piano, Martin's song cycle The Glass Hammer and Liebermann's Trumpet Concerto. Just out from Summit Records is The Symphonic Works of Daniel Asia: At the Far Edge, and Delos is releasing a live recording of the Liebermann Second this fall. "Of course there's a backlash from the Old Guard," Liebermann says, "but the tide is finally turning." About time...
...Pinochet's absence failed to produce the military backlash some had feared, and even his supporters now favor the general's retirement from public life. Being shamed in Britain, which excused him from standing trial for crimes against humanity only because of his ailing health, has been deeply humiliating for the renowned Anglophile, and his ordeal may not be over. Chilean judge Juan Guzman is currently considering some 59 lawsuits brought against Pinochet, and the judge wants more medical tests to establish his fitness to stand trial. Of course Pinochet has plenty of legal grounds to hold off the prosecutors...