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...legislative action this year--the most prominent was renaming National Airport for Ronald Reagan. Newt Gingrich has had to arbitrate between conservatives who can't wait to sink their teeth into Clinton's soft underbelly and the moderates who are awed by the President's popularity and fear a backlash at the polls. So last week Gingrich floated the idea of a special select committee to look into whether Starr's findings would warrant impeachment. That quickly gave way to the milder notion, favored by Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde, to have a less formal group look at whatever Starr...
...confusion and excessive rulemaking may already be sowing the seeds of backlash. In a recent TIME/CNN poll, just 26% of those surveyed called sexual harassment of women "a big problem," down from 37% in 1991. What's more, 57% of men--and 52% of women--agree that "we have gone too far in making common interactions between employees into cases of sexual harassment...
...jury agreed with the defendant--as have other juries in a few such backlash cases. The most famous was brought by Jerold Mackenzie, a former Miller Brewing executive, who claimed that the company wrongfully interfered with his employment status after a co-worker, Patricia Best, accused him of sexual harassment. He had recounted for Best an episode of Seinfeld on TV that indirectly referred to the clitoris, and then showed her the word in the dictionary. A jury gave him $26.6 million last summer...
...bemoaned the fact that many Harvard women are reluctant to assert themselves on the topic of sexual equality. The women's groups are all very careful to avoid using that dirty word, feminism. Being feminist hasn't been encouraged or rewarded for many years now. Yet in the ensuing backlash, the best thing about feminism, namely, female dialogue, has fallen by the way-side...
...There's been a backlash against in-your-face activism," he says. "If you have too many freedom rallies, they lose their effect...