Word: backgrounder
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...students, we learn ways of thinking from our peers that have differing economic, religious and cultural backgrounds and differing sexual orientations. But as we see at Harvard, athletes often block with athletes and single-race blocking groups are common. Once students can pick their own roommates, it seems inevitable that the majority will chose to live with students of a similar background...
...feel like it was published in a background that ignores what has gone on,” Davis said...
...Though Republican advisers to the White House have pushed for a voice with credibility on Wall Street, no new names have surfaced to fill any vacancies. Secretary O'Neill has survived his numerous verbal blunders and is likely to stay, but in the background. Aides say Commerce Secretary Don Evans will step up to become the public voice of the economic team, but that's a prediction they have been making for months, and it has yet to happen. "The President really wants it," says a top official, "but it's not that easy to do." The White House tried...
...desperately needs if she and her party are to be returned to office in the 2004 elections. Says Arbi Sanit, a lecturer in politics at the University of Indonesia: "Every politician in Indonesia needs the Islamic vote, and with Megawati it's even more so because of her secular background...
...later - is Mullan's second feature-length work (after 1997's Orphans). The fact-based tale of four girls sent to one of Ireland's Magdalene asylums for wayward girls - often, it seems, their sin was simply being pretty and flirtatious - has little in common with Mullan's own background. But he has come to understand the connection between his story and the ones he tells in the film. "My father was our oppressor," he says. "I got to understand oppression, especially the kind that can open a door and say, 'Well, you can leave any time you like.' " Mullan...