Word: backlashers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...women as they struggle to balance their professional and private lives. Besides conductor Worby, the book includes chapters on ABC television personality Meredith Vieira and Dr. Alison Estabrook, chief of breast surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. But it was the Worby chapter that provoked its own backlash last week, not only because of Worby's frank discussion of her sexual history (and the tattoo emblazoned on her upper right thigh), but because she demystifies the role of first lady for women of ambition in the late 20th century. "I can only assume that the laying bare...
...Still the French are being particularly careful about speculating without evidence, says Rademaekers. For one thing, they don't want to repeat the mistake made by U.S. law enforcement officials immediately after the Oklahoma City bombing, when some speculated that Middle Eastern terrorists were responsible, giving rise to a backlash against Americans of Middle Eastern extraction...
Strikingly, the mounting backlash against televised trials owes little to concerns about the First Amendment's guarantees of a free press vs. the Sixth Amendment's promise of a fair trial, an issue that has yet to be resolved by the Supreme Court. Instead, the legal community is assessing the fallout from the Simpson case--the media stalking of witnesses, the glut of pop books, the glamourization of commentators--and concluding that a camera lens does far more than just behold. Those who have been inside the Simpson courtroom note how lawyers have learned to turn their back...
...intimidated. He beat the Communist leaders in Poland. He's denounced the IRA in Ireland, rebuked leaders for human rights violations in places like Brazil, and chastised the Supreme Court on abortion while just a few blocks down the Mall." The Vatican could face a stiff backlash. After the 1993 speech in Sicily, two church bombs exploded in Rome and a priest was gunned down in his church...
...Thompson says. Defense Secretary William Perry today defended the military's handling of the attack, noting that "many officers' careers were very adversely affected by this." But Thompson says today's decision, combined with a report last month detailing a skyrocketing mishap rate in the service, may trigger a backlash in Congress. "Family members of the dead are already screaming about the lack of accountability in today's Air Force," he says. "What congressman is going to turn down an Air Force widow when the military hasn't done...