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...fear of such anti-Semitic backlash makes some Swiss Jews wish the Americans would back off a bit. "Many Swiss resent that they are made to feel guilty," says Rolf Bloch, 66, president of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities. "If they are attacked in a collective way, they will react. One reaction is anti-Semitism. In Switzerland today, there is not as much anti-Semitism as in the '30s. But it's flaring up again...
...weeks ago I first heard of the Bee, Harvard's only Final Club for women, and I've been fascinated by the idea of it ever since: Is it a backlash against the male-controlled elite Harvard social scene? An attempt to buy into the Old Boys Network...
...other matters. So it comes as something of a surprise that the founders of Ms. and Penthouse magazines have both seen fit to attack The People vs. Larry Flynt, Milos Forman's critically praised film (Oliver Stone is a producer). Steinem and Guccione's beef--part of a growing backlash that may end up denying the film its expected handful of Oscar nominations--is that the movie, in its efforts to plump up Flynt as a First Amendment hero, sanitizes the gamier aspects of his life and work as the creative force behind Hustler magazine. "Larry Flynt the Movie...
...issue of racial preferences has been a hot topic in the news lately. Contentious debates have arisen all over the country surrounding policies of affirmative action and quotas. Activists have been forced to defend many long-standing programs against a rising backlash against what some dub as reverse-racism...
...determined to play a very public game of chicken with the President. And while Dole thought that was batty, he was willing to let Gingrich take the fall. Through the autumn, as the Democratic ads were raining on the Republican parade, Dole marched on, his fear of a backlash growing. A government shutdown was not what he wanted, and he could see it wasn't what the people wanted either. "There are people out there who live from paycheck to paycheck," he told Sheila Burke, his longtime chief aide. At a closed-door meeting in which Gingrich laid out plans...