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...this a "self-correcting policy" that sends black undergraduates to colleges where they can best compete. But his point has been lost in the angry din being raised around the country. "We're seeing a radical revival of apartheid," thundered Jesse Jackson, who is working hard to fuel a backlash against Connerly's crusade, a backlash that is also being encouraged by Bill Clinton...
...raised, it?s society?s fault. People in line with McVeigh, the right wing militia, would usually have no sympathy for this kind of argument." Worse, Cohen notes, having struck some sympathetic chords with jurors during Thursday?s emotional testimony by McVeigh?s parents: "There could be a backlash among the jury, whose reaction could be, 'Don't blame us for what he did'." That certainly held true outside the courtroom. "The Waco deal?" scoffed Charles Tomlin, who lost his grown son in the bombing. "They gave them 52 days to come out or do something. My son didn...
...story also provoked an extraordinary backlash in the press. The New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times all eventually ran lengthy investigative pieces or multipart series that disputed major points in the Mercury News story, especially its implication that the CIA was a party to getting poor blacks hooked on crack. After defending the series with diminishing resolve, Mercury News executive editor Jerry Ceppos finally confessed in an extraordinary Sunday editorial last week that he too found the story flawed...
...work on now has to do with what we could call the "post medium" age. By this I mean that conceptual art, installation art, and a great deal of what happened in the eighties was about dismantling the idea of medium, although there was also a sort of reactionary backlash in the eighties to try to resurrect old media like painting, sculpture etc. Recently, I've just done a long essay on the Irish artist James Coleman, and one of the points of that essay was how he has done something that I would call" inventing a medium...
...have already heard the backlash from people saying DeGeneres wasn't very supportive of the gay community in your article. To them I say, "Let Ellen be who she is--an individual who has her own experiences and views of the gay community." Isn't that what we are all about--diversity and acceptance? To Ellen I say, "Congratulations, thank you for the laughs and welcome 'out.'" JOSEPH DEJULIO San Francisco...