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...definitely do. If I don't do the background work-I guess it's called pre-production in film-I am paralyzed. I have to assemble a lot of notes, some of them just scraps of paper, before I can even write that first paragraph...
...collection for research. During her time at Radcliffe College in the 50s, Wheaton was appalled by the terrible food. Like many of her contemporaries, she dropped out to get married and have babies—and turned her attention to the kitchen. “Because of my background in art history, I got interested in why cooking differs so much over time and space,” explained Wheaton. “I began to realize that food is a cultural artifact and you could look at a recipe and get a pretty good idea of when and where...
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Mark U. Edwards, Jr, associate dean for academic administration at the Divinity School, said that the courses do not need to be taught only by professors with a background in religious study...
...Some Republican activists, however, think Perry's woes are less indicative of the national scene, than his own background - as a former Texas rural Democrat. "He's a farmer from Haskell. Pragmatically, he is a conservative Democrat," says former Texas G.O.P. political director Royal Massett. "They don't see him as John Connally with that charisma, or Lyndon Johnson with his sense of get it done." But what Perry loses from the corporate Republican crowd in Dallas and Houston, he gains in the heavily Hispanic Rio Grande Valley and in rural areas. While his TV ads stress border security...