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...generate will be a driving force in the increasing issuehood of undergraduate social life, but other events will contribute as well. The new Massachusetts alcohol laws are so strict that Project ADD, the alcohol and drug abuse peer counselors, have been prevented from talking to first-year proctor groups. Backlash against such stupidity and Project ADD's upcoming alcohol awareness week (rumored to coincide with `no kegs at Harvard week') will probably provoke debate...
That is the equivalent of what Russia is going through, and it would spell political backlash -- if not worse -- in any language. When Bill Clinton was in Moscow two weeks ago, Boris Yeltsin assured him that free-market reforms would continue in spite of the December elections that boosted extreme nationalists and old communists into parliament as the dominant opposition. But Air Force One was hardly airborne before the Russian government started stepping back from its pledges...
...grass-roots female militancy is not something that a women's studies professor would judge p.c. In fact, it looks a lot like your standard conservative anticrime backlash, but with a key difference: crime in this case is defined as what men have been getting away with for centuries...
...with East Germany, its economy and politics started going haywire, and the peace and prosperity that had resulted from surrender was over. The Senate's confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court was a putative win for the Bush Administration and the Republicans, but it was anti-Thomas backlash a year later that elected a squadron of Democratic women to the Senate and helped lose the election for Bush. In the fall of 1992, the four broadcast networks, especially CBS, were giddy at winning their long fight in Congress to oblige the cable-TV companies to negotiate payments...
There is already talk of a genetic backlash, a revolt against the notion that we are our genes, or, as one critic put it, that our Genes R Us. John Maddox, editor of the journal Nature, warns that the greatest pitfall of the genome project may be what he calls the "inescapable triumphalism" that accompanies a rush of discoveries, leaving the impression that geneticists know a lot more than they do. Studies claiming to have found genes for alcoholism, for instance, have not held up under scrutiny, but many people still assume such complex behaviors may be predetermined by heredity...