Word: backgrounder
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...been around for less than a month, but it's already getting about 6,000 hits a day. In part that's because the qualifications for entry are minimal. Anyone bored, lonely, grumpy or dejected (preferably all four) is welcome. Smeared makeup is a plus. So is a dingy background, like a fast-food joint or a room with wood paneling...
Judging from his dramatic introduction in the East Room, the President is dazzled by his nominee's Puerto Rican background. Obama has an unfortunate tendency to conflate personality and principle. "I stand here today as someone whose own life was made possible by these documents," he said during his national-security speech at the National Archives in May. As if there were any American for whom that is not true. Or as if ethnic minorities can make that claim more plausibly than other Americans. (See pictures of Judge Sonia Sotomayor...
...writer’s humble background became a factor later, when the Signet Society—Harvard’s social club of arts and letters—almost did not accept Updike into their cloistered circle, since he could not pay the membership fee. Then-Crimson President Michael Maccoby ’54, who nominated Updike to the Signet, said that he convinced the Signet to waive Updike’s fees after telling them that if they did not allow him in, they would regret it for the rest of their lives...
...percent during her first five years in charge. “I believe I was able to leave [Wellesley] in a much stronger position than what it was when I came in,” Mendillo says. “Wellesley gave me the top-down strategy background that I was looking for and it layered very well on the asset class specific experience I had at HMC.”THE BEGINNING OF THE STORMWhile her sojourn at Wellesley prepared her to take the helm of Harvard’s mammoth endowment, the company she returned to was dramatically...
...remained in the background until last month, when the first round of cuts across the University’s largest school drew outrage from constituents who felt as though the real talk—which led to $77 million in cutbacks—had happened behind closed doors...