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...motivated $30 million libel suit brought by Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal against Drudge may suggest otherwise. But I remain unconvinced that Internet gossiping is any preparation for mass media stardom. If Drudge turns out to be a flash in the pan, or an unreliable reporter, look for a cultural backlash against the same Internet that nurtured his media dreams...
...This backlash against the liberalism that has dominated Harvard since the '60s is, I have heard many theorize, due to the campus's inability to identify with the progressive left any longer. People who think about the world outside Harvard are weird, popular sentiment goes, and it has become cool to flaunt anti-progressivism. This was nowhere more clear than in the recent Undergraduate Council presidential elections...
Several drunk students from Harvard Medical School (HMS) acted inappropriately at the Fogg Art Museum during the school's winter formal, prompting a backlash from Fogg administrators...
...lectured and informed that we are bad. Instead of putting forward a rational, ethics-based argument for Harvard students' involvement in the world around us, she sternly reminds us that we have such obligations. It is this same self-righteousness that has provoked the "Harvard Students First" backlash that brought grapes back and kept Redmond out of the council vice president's chair...
...unclear how much the New Jersey agreement will change adoption law elsewhere. In fact, there's a chance that the New Jersey case could do for adoption policy what a Hawaii case did for marriage: ignite a national backlash. Lower-court decisions in Hawaii allowing same-sex marriages led other states and eventually Congress to pass the bills outlawing them. (The Hawaii Supreme Court will probably rule on the issue soon, but next year Hawaii's voters will have a chance to amend their constitution to ban same-sex marriages.) The New Jersey case, says Arne Owens, a spokesman...