Word: backgrounder
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...most sacred. American citizens have been arrested and held in isolation by the government as “enemy combatants,” a legal fiction that has somehow trumped the Constitution. Other Americans have been singled out for scrutiny solely because of their ethnic background. Chief Justice William Rehnquist and his coterie of activist justices just do not care as long as states’ rights are upheld. At the nation’s leading university, a commencement-day speaker who wanted to tell of his experience as a Muslim American came under ruthless attack as an apologist...
...wound. Though students couldn't enter the science fair until the sixth grade, George and Hilary had spent the past year scouring the Internet for the perfect project. "For a lot of years, I was basically just the team manager for the two of them and stood in the background and watched," Ginny says...
...hear the workings of Bush's mental circuitry: where he has experience and knowledge and a sense of the players and the pressures they live with, he can accept the grays, forgive the weaknesses and stop short of applying his moral code. But where his background is not as deep, and those skills are in shorter supply, he is quicker to invoke absolute judgments and stick with them come what...
Covert product placement has been around for years, with movie and TV producers accepting cash for the casual positioning of a particular brand of soda or make of sports car in the background of a scene. But now the concept has leaped off the screen into other areas of life, often catching consumers unaware. Celebrities such as Lauren Bacall and Kathleen Turner appear on talk shows and praise prescription drugs without disclosing that they have been paid by the drugmakers. Marketers give expensive sneakers, colognes or even cars to young trendsetters on college campuses, at the fringes of show...
...first husband was a musician with a humble background; her second, a fabulously famous pop star who became a freakish recluse. Now she has married an actor who has made two movies in Las Vegas. LISA MARIE PRESLEY seems to be assembling a nuptial collage of her late father Elvis. After her marriages to Danny Keough and Michael Jackson, Presley walked down an aisle in Hawaii with NICOLAS CAGE last week, the 25th anniversary of Elvis' death. The groom, a fan of Elvis memorabilia, got to add the King's daughter to his collection...