Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand the administration's decision to tamper with the housing lottery. Self-segregation based on interests and ethnic background may be an understandable human phenomena, but it is not a pleasant one for people who hope to live in a pluralistic society. And so I would agree with the University's decision if I thought it would achieve some real kind of integration...
...special three-judge court today appointed David Barrett, a former counsel to the House ethics committee, to investigate whether HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros committed a crime by misleading the FBI about payments to his former mistress during pre-confirmation background checks. "Information provided by Secretary Cisneros concerning his payments to (Linda) Medlar was false," Reno told a special court when she asked for the appointment March 14. People familiar with the case have said a number of lawyers who were approached for the position took themselves out of consideration because they had done legal work involving Cisneros' department...
...support for student choice in the housing lottery is by no means a solitary voice. The chorus of campus organizations opposing the decision is wide-ranging in perspective and background. While the Undergraduate Council, for one, has not yet resolved to oppose randomization, it certainly will if it is to have any future as a viable political outlet for the student body. Its recent poll of undergraduates found that 81 percent of students favored ordered or non-ordered choice over randomization. Such a statistic is consistent with the Harvard Independent's finding that 82 percent of the College is averse...
...death, in the form of two hunks of rib cage propped against one another, and the way Goya has rendered the structure of dark red meat and the spectral, yet dense and greasy white fat is both factual and haunting. These low mounds of form, bluntly placed against a background of no-space black, come out of the same sensibility that recorded the nameless piles of human bodies in The Disasters of War. This is the realization of the inevitability of death that the older vanitas paintings set out as metaphor, but here it is concrete and direct, inscribed...
Even though she does not try to choose friendsof a particular ethnic background, Tai says mostof her friends are Asian. "I don't think Iconsciously do that," Tai says. "Who ever hasinterests that match yours--for me, that's how itcomes...