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The Wall Street Journal runs a front-page feature about a federal affirmative action program for female highway contractors (the only one that cites women as a disadvantaged class) and the backlash it has created among black, male construction workers, who feel squeezed out of the trade by it.
The backlash against the Ken Burns documentary machine kicks into high gear.
The point is that an implicit theme running throughout Backlash is that in a world plagued by stupid, superficial journalism, Newsweek is stupider and more superficial than most print outlets.
This year's lines are noted for representing a backlash against feminism--"fashion's new womanliness," Time 's Ginia Bellafante calls it--with a return to pinks, pleats, and furs.
Also, Saddam is taking advantage of the current Arab backlash against the United States , sparked by the latter's failure to broker a peace settlement with Israel.