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When it emerged that the first serious suspects in the bombing were not Arabs or Muslims, the threat of a backlash subsided. What did not change was the sudden momentum behind passage of an antiterrorism bill bitterly opposed by many Arab-American groups, as well as civil libertarians. On Capitol Hill, where the members of Congress are eager to show that they are doing something to prevent future outrages, the omnibus counterterrorism act of 1995 is now getting serious attention. Proposed by the Clinton Administration in the wake of the World Trade Center bombing, it would, among its many provisions...
...recent backlash against the strike only highlights baseball's decline over the last decade...
Much of this backlash is predictable, driven by the yearly migration of pack journalists racing from one trendy locale to the next and then turning back to sneer at the place they just left. Some of it comes from the I-told-you-so quarter, composed largely of reactionary fogies who flaunt the fact that they don't know a modem from a mousetrap. "The modern world is not dying for want of more information," Russell Baker harrumphed in a New York Times column last month, assailing, among other things, the word cyberspace itself ("... if you were given a choice...
...kill more people than they actually did, the fact that they held back somewhat suggests they imposed certain restraints on themselves. Most such groups viewed themselves as political activists rather than wanton killers. They had to appeal to potential supporters of their program and were wary of producing a backlash of revulsion by using the most repellent methods. The cold war and the rules of state-sponsored terrorism curtailed their freedom of action. Governments knew more or less who was sponsoring whom, and the threat of retaliation was always present--as demonstrated when the Reagan Administration sent U.S. bombers...
...safe, legal and effective way to interrupt potential pregnancies, according to two studies released today by the non-profit Kaiser Family Foundation. The main reasons: doctors are not recommending them to patients, and drug makers are not advertising them as after-the-fact birth control for fear of apolitical backlash from abortion opponents. The foundation surveyed 270 women and 300 ob/gyns. In order to educate the public about the availability of the treatment, a small group of health care professionals are planning to post a list on the Internet of 1,477 doctors who are willing to prescribe the pills...