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...That generational shift is notable. Many Germans raised in the 1960s, caught up in the backlash against their parents' involvement with National Socialism, tacitly sympathized with the RAF's stated goals, though rarely with their tactics. Films such as Die Bleierne Zeit (1981) and Stammheim (1986) depicted the terrorists as victims of their times. In the 1990s, a Hamburg-based designer even created a T shirt with the slogan prada-meinhof. Since Sept. 11, such radical chic has lost its allure...
...There might be a possibility that because it is vocal and publicized, eventually it is going to backlash, but for me, for people to hear the story and hear what is going on, for my level and the larger Iraqi situation, is more important...
...there's no shortage of Manning haters. Why? Start with the TV spots' saturation. "You know he did something to your favorite team," says Spikes, understanding, though not agreeing with, the backlash against the ads, "and then you have to look at him after every commercial break." Some fans are uncomfortable with a player who is so serious, and often sour, on the field morphing into a charmer on camera. "I find the marketing of his personality contrived," says Spencer Wilking, 27, a Concord, Mass., native and Patriots devotee still reeling from the championship-game loss. "It rubs...
...Although the Chinese authorities are mindful of the danger of a socially disruptive backlash by poor rural citizens, there are no national elections to worry about. "Voting is a much more immediate, more powerful threat," says Indian economic analyst Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. "And even when there's no election looming, Indians can put pressure on their representatives to have the bureaucrats transferred if they don't like them. In China you have a one-party state so that's a bit harder...
...TIME: In the U.S., the term is associated with a president whose popularity has taken a big hit in large part because of the Iraq war. Prime Minister Tony Blair's government has also suffered badly from an Iraq backlash. What would you have done differently...