Word: backgrounder
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...crew which is filming a PBS sequel to “African American Lives.” In “Oprah’s Roots,” Gates will teach audiences how to trace their own family trees as he traces Oprah Winfrey’s family background. The companion book, “Finding Oprah’s Roots: Building an African-American Family Tree,” will be available in February.“I feel that what makes Gates so special is his ability to collaborate with the best and the brightest from Wole...
...time mentor and leader of the Likud opposition, former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. While the move maintains the primacy of Olmert's Kadima party, some questioned how a Prime Minister already under fire for his management of the Hizballah war could hand Lieberman, who has no military or intelligence background, a position that carries at least some responsibility for watching Iran, which many Israeli leaders identify as their country's greatest threat...
Chinese-born Loling Song, who conducted research at Cornell before coming to Harvard Medical School, had initiated the process to achieve permanent residence status in 2004. Despite the FBI background clearance, Song said yesterday that her case is “still pending” and declined to comment further...
...separate study Fligor co-authored with Terri Ives, a professor at Pennsylvania College of Optometry, found that only six percent of the population listens to music at excessive volume levels when there is no background noise. But with background noise, this number increased dramatically to 80 percent...
...spend a fair amount of time on Hill matters. Part of that is because of my background in the House of Representatives, and part of it because my continuing job as Vice President is in the Senate. Most people don't realize I'm actually on the Senate payroll. That's where my paycheck comes from...