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...know, that's not entirely fair to Connecticut females. In fact, it's a dreadful, horrible, recklessly awful generalization. So let me immediately backtrack, backpedal and otherwise retract what I just said, lest the lovely, gorgeous, impeccably attractive ladies of my home state rise up, march to Cambridge, seize every copy of this fine paper and put it to the torch in protest...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: Stereotyping Made Easy | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...Street had its first bear market of the millennium. The faltering economy is a problem for President George W. Bush, who was noted during the presidential debates for his insistence that critics of his tax plan were using "fuzzy math." If government revenues dry up, Bush may have to backtrack on his huge tax cut proposal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartboard | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

...week declined to hear a case challenging the California three-strikes law, but four Justices expressed concern about the law's effect and seemed to invite other challenges. A few brave politicians have gingerly suggested that the laws may be something we should rethink. Some states are starting to backtrack on tough sentencing laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Get-Tough Policy That Failed | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...visa began it. Adams' U.S. visit strengthened his stance for politics over terrorism within the I.R.A. and broadened his narrow views. The U.S. decision to take Adams seriously also made it harder for him to backtrack from diplomacy. After an I.R.A. cease-fire in 1994, Clinton and senior aides stepped up the frequency of meetings with Protestant Unionist leaders who had long considered Washington biased toward a united Ireland. When the President visited London, Dublin and Belfast in late 1995, he was hailed as a peacemaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With Help From Their Friends | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

Allow me to backtrack. Like e-mail or the World Wide Web, newsgroups are just one of the uses of the Internet. The simplest way to think of newsgroups is as forum (usually) for public discussion-a bulletin board of sorts...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Newsgroups Give Users Fresh Look | 9/30/1997 | See Source »

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