Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lawrence-King is an ideal person to introduce early music, as he has quite an impressive background. He won an Organ Scholarship to Cambridge and attended the London Early Music Center. He is the Baroque conductor and founder and director of two ensembles, has made solo recordings and was the recipient of two significant awards...
...Shepards do not discuss it much, but they have taken sides in a simmering national argument. The question before the house, as the deer season bangs on in the rural background this Thanksgiving week, concerns the morality and future of hunting--and specifically whether children, who are its future, should be taught to hunt. Does it help them connect with their elders and the outdoors; to respect the power of weapons and the realities of life and death, as hunters believe? Or does killing animals, as hunting's opponents claim, damage young psyches, making children indifferent to suffering and ready...
...BUCK & TIM MCCARVER Heard calling ball game in the background of the Tripp tapes, scoring biggest audience ever...
Just in time for the holiday shopping rush: Instant background checks for gun purchasers to screen out felons and other undesirables. Mandated by the 1993 Brady Act, a national computerized background check goes into effect today, replacing the voluntary checks that have been the responsibility of state and local law enforcement agencies up to now. The program will cover handguns as well as rifles and shotguns...
...Totally Tessellated," (http://library.advanced.org/16661), which features information on the background, history and application of tessellations in math, science and decoration through the ages, was a collaborative effort that grew out of the three's chance meeting at a summer program two years...