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...spoil all their hard work. At the state party's semiannual convention last September, Schroeder tried frantically to keep delegates from endorsing it but was overruled by the rank and file. Some dismiss the chairman's fears that the campaign against bilingual education will spawn a Prop. 187-style backlash. They point to polls showing that a majority of Latinos actually support the initiative. But Latino political analysts warn that one thing could still turn their community against the measure: a close association with the California Republican Party...
...natural reasonmay lead. Gomes, of course, has no problem withrhetoric. His self-assured air combined and deepvocal tenor compels few to question his words asanything but gospel. And so, looking upon his fullcongregation on Sundays at Memorial Church, Gomesconcludes that "Godless Harvard" is not Godless atall. He illuminates a backlash to the scientificemphasis on quantification and demystification.Gomes says that the realization that "science hasnot produced a utopia" has buoyed a risingspiritual tide that "makes it easier to preach in1998 than...
...didn't take long for the backlash to begin. Breast-cancer support groups weighed in almost at once. Why, they asked, would an otherwise healthy woman want to take a drug that can cause birth defects, trigger blood clots and double her chance of getting cancer of the uterus? Some questioned the drug's value even for the 29 million American women whose chances of getting breast cancer are, like Helene Wilson's, significantly higher than the 1-in-9 national average. Tamoxifen is already approved as a breast-cancer treatment, so physicians can prescribe it for prevention as well...
...students, the country's conservative leadership sought to defuse a mounting crisis by releasing Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi on bail. "The arrest of Karbaschi, a key moderate, was a direct challenge to the authority of President Khatami," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "But the public backlash caught the conservatives off guard...
...company and what it stands for. Says Knight: "What we are doing today might be O.K. for a $3 billion company. It's not O.K. at 9." In reviewing its corporate image, executives reached an interesting conclusion: too many swooshes. "There has been a little bit of an internal backlash about just the number of swooshes that are out there," says Parker, who is the keeper of the brand image. When Tiger Woods made his debut in Nike gear, there were so many logos on him that he looked as if he had got caught in an embroidering machine...