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...added interest and late fees that typically pile up when more consumers are late to pay or exceed their credit limit?thus triggering a higher rate?are feeding a consumer backlash that is gaining strength. In 2007, 11,427 people filed complaints with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which oversees bank-issued cards?a 13% increase over...
...This backlash against Williams’ moderate suggestions derives from an inherent misunderstanding of what the Archbishop’s intentions were. He recognized that certain provisions of Shariah were already acknowledged by society, not that the U.K. should adopt Shariah as a “parallel jurisprudence.” For example, Williams said individuals could resolve aspects of specified matters such as martial law and regulation of financial transactions under the jurisdiction of their choice, allowing British Muslims to forego choosing between cultural and state loyalties. That there is one law for everybody is an important part...
Manhattan Sex Therapist Shirley Zussman says that her patients these days complain about the emptiness of sex without commitment. "Being part of a meat market is appalling in terms of self-esteem," she says. "Fears, of both loneliness and intimacy, are a backlash against the 'cool sex' promoted during the sexual revolution." Psychiatrist Domeena Renshaw, director of the Sexual Dysfunction Clinic at Chicago's Loyola University, has a waiting list of 200 couples seeking help. "Many have tried group sex and the swinging scene, but for them it has been destructive and corrosive. Often the partner who suggested it first...
...opinion poll—oppose the headscarf ban, and over 400 members of Turkey’s 550-member parliament voted for its repeal. Maintaining the ban despite such opposition would only foster further resentment against the government and its secular policies. The past generation has witnessed the ferocious backlash that can result against a blanket secularism imposed tactlessly, most notably in the streets of Tehran in 1979. Removing this prohibition would prevent the disintegration of the balance between secular and fundamentalist interests that has existed in Turkey since it became a republic...
...National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) ruled on February 1 that Ukraine's own national oil and gas company should be put back in control of the gas pipeline. But Yushchenko has yet to issue a presidential decree on the matter, and he accuses Tymoshenko of provoking Gazprom's backlash and pursuing her own interests. "Politics are being thrown big way into the Ukrainian gas market, I'm afraid," he told 1+1 Ukrainian TV station Thursday. "These politics bring along corporate interests...