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...dinner, you need to minimize risk. For that, the user reviews on Citysearch or Yelp are beyond useless - they're faceless and contradictory - and the same goes for blogs. (Blogs at least sometimes take pictures.) So there, in that whirlwind of trends and fad ingredients and hype and backlash, are a few immense ancient trees, with sturdy roots and massive trunks...
...about self-esteem in young women, was on the best-seller list for three years. And of course there was the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas drama on television, in which people saw on their screens an African-American woman's charges against Thomas utterly dismissed. That produced a huge backlash, which prompted a record number of women to run for Congress. So you had this feminist ferment in the early- and mid-1990s that gave rise to what was the girl-power movement...
...heightened the fraught congressional machinations. As Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and their allies seek the final cache of votes required to clear the next hurdle in the House, they have one hand tied behind them. Business-as-usual eleventh-hour incentives are off limits after the pointed backlash against a spate of clumsy sweetheart deals like the so-called Cornhusker Kickback given to Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson. That's why the reality for the Democratic Party - that they must all hang together on the health care vote or they will surely all be hung separately in the midterm elections...
...Stalling on universal suffrage so far hasn't produced a popular backlash, in part because Hong Kongers seem to have faith in a gradualist approach. Although support for democracy hovers around 70%, almost half the elected officials are from pro-Beijing parties that advocate cooperation and incrementalism. Some Hong Kongers even question whether the special administrative region is ready for democracy. A common refrain: If "Long Hair," a Trotskyite pro-democracy legislator known for his long hair and Che T-shirts, can become the second most popular politician in the city, the people aren't ready to pick their...
...addition to studying media and popular culture, Young said she also hopes to look at immigration in America and the backlash against Latino immigrants from black groups...