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TAKING TO THE STREETS More than 100,000 people protested in the South Korean capital on June 10 amid an escalating backlash against President Lee Myung Bak's move to end a ban on imported American beef. Lee's April decision sparked the protests, which have grown in scope to include his broader policies toward Washington and prompted his Cabinet members to offer their resignations...
...clear win for Obama - for a time. But as McCain was being slammed in the press, Republican opposition researchers - and some enterprising investigative reporters - were plotting an outrage backlash. Did it matter, for instance, that David Axelrod, Obama's political mastermind, had worked for a firm that led a public relations effort for Exelon, the utility giant? Would anyone notice that the man who helped convince Obama to run, former Senator Tom Daschle, works for a lobbying firm? Should voters care that former lobbyists also populate Obama's staff and current lobbyists offer him unpaid advice...
...completely different part of the country: Tibet. After bloody anti-Chinese protests in mid-March were suppressed by the Chinese military, Beijing closed the Himalayan region off from the outside world and made scores of arrests. Those moves brought widespread international condemnation, which in turn sparked a nationalistic backlash in China that some feared might imperil the smooth running of the Beijing Olympics this August...
...campaign a grip on the nomination. If these efforts are sustained, Barack Obama will win the election in November and bring a younger look and a new approach to national politics. Contrast this strategy to the less disciplined street tactics used back in 1968, tactics that triggered a conservative backlash and helped elect Richard Nixon...
...amendment caused an immediate backlash in the University community, with economics professor N. Gregory Mankiw, a former chief economic advisor in the Bush administration, calling the legislation “one of the most pernicious ideas I have heard of late.” Smith followed suit, condemning what he said was the arbitrary effect...