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Gingrich's popularity has ebbed since the heady early days of the Contract with America. His 33% approval rating in a May TIME/CNN poll of U.S. voters was only 9 points higher than Nixon's was before he resigned the presidency. It is an anti-Newt backlash that, Georgia Democrats believe, has occurred back home as well. While a February poll by the Gingrich campaign indicated that 75% of likely voters in his district think the Speaker deserves re-election, the Coles operation claims that in its own surveys 47% of Gingrich constituents say he is not performing well...
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...Simons '99 received a forceful backlash when he misused Harvard's e-mail resources to mass-mail an advertisement for an a cappella concert.... While Simons' mailing may have been an innocent mistake, it serves as a reminder of how fragile the Internet is.... If individuals cannot regulate their own actions, then a higher power will inevitably step in, and in doing so will decrease the value of the 'Net to all users...
...course, changes in the American family culture go well beyond geography.... [The 1960s] backlash in its raw fury was too indiscriminate. It attacked the good as well as the evil, especially when it came to the place of the family and personal commitments...
Employers understandably value real-world experience and skills, and students are incorporating that message into their college planning. Simply witness the recent backlash against joining Phi Beta Kappa by many graduates who have either never heard of it or do not care enough about its guiding liberal arts principle, "Philosophia Biou Kybernetes," or "Love of wisdom is the guide of life." A love of wisdom has sadly metamorphosed into a love of financial security...