Word: backgrounder
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...aptitude” of college applicants. The next 80 years, however, would prove the SAT to be anything but neutral. A good SAT score has always added sparkle to the resumes of the most affluent college applicants, while casting a shadow onto those from less privileged backgrounds. The SAT at times seems almost directly proportional to the amount of money one’s parents make. Among test-takers in 2008, for instance, those whose family incomes were above $200,000 averaged 570 in SAT math, while students with family incomes below $20,000 had an average score...
...president of the New York Fed for at least a year, maybe two years, when I was at Goldman Sachs. And he's a very, very, unusually talented young man. And so he understands government and understands markets. And Ben is, although he's got an academic background, very pragmatic, intellectually curious, a courageous guy. And he has-these steps we've taken have been with the Fed authorities, we don't have the authorities here to do some of the things we've done...
...Over the years, perpetual existential crisis has quietly faded into the background. Surely, some of that comes with maturity; we always outgrow our posturing adolescent angst. But part of me has begun to consider this a serious loss. In a way, I’m currently having an existential crisis over the lack of existential crisis in my life. Unlike the young Woody Allen, I do my homework—and polish my resume, agonize about graduate school, write trivial articles for The Crimson, all without thinking about the inexorable outward stretching of the universe (Annie Hall might...
...position, McLoughlin will work closely with Hammonds, preparing briefings for meetings and writing background reports to aid with College decision-making. McLoughlin will also help Hammonds manage her staff both within University Hall and in other College offices, according to the announcement...
...resources, you could always launch your own counterattack: Barack Obama, frustrated with the false rumors being spread about his background and religious history, created a website in June called Fight The Smears to debunk them. But taking matters into one's own hands can be fraught. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was notoriously outed in 2005 for attempting to whitewash his own entry on the site (Wiki contributors noted that he deleted references to his Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger, as well as to a search site he founded that included adult content). Now a monitoring program called WikiWatcher aims...