Americans' sympathetic reaction to Mr Clinton's travails may herald a backlash against harassment law.

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"A natural sympathetic reaction will cancel some of the anger that was driving all this, " he says.

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Nonetheless, the intellectual case for that strike must be better understood in advance by the American public and Congress in order to ensure a sympathetic reaction by Washington.

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And after seeing the television pictures most people were sympathetic to the man's instinctive reaction.

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Crawford-Brown gets this kind of reaction a lot, and he's sympathetic.

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No surprise, the wonderful people in my life have all been very kind and sympathetic, offering words of comfort and support, but reaction and willingness to talk openly about the disease has varied.

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