Word: backgrounders
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...Japanese politics, he returns to the subject again and again throughout a 212-hour conversation, bushy eyebrows bobbing as he worries about "politicians who rewrite history," and the growing tendency in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Japan to forget about wartime atrocities. Japanese history has always been in the background of his works - and his best novel, 1994's Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, dissected the groupthink that led Japan into a catastrophic war - but now he wants to act. "Before, I wanted to be an expatriate writer," he admits. "But I am a Japanese writer. This is my soil...
...charged are staged like motion-picture galas. State and local press, weaned on the daily flow of announcements and tips, are none too anxious to bite--by critical analysis of conduct or budget--the law-enforcement hands that feed them. Staged press conferences, featuring a speaking prosecutor and a background of stern-looking, silent officials and assistant prosecutors, have become ubiquitous. In terms of the age-old question of who's watching security, the answer is, Davis--and not enough others...
...Jamaica are using the nursing-school slot shortage as a selling point to recruit American students. The pioneer of this movement is an 88-year-old entrepreneur named Robert Ross. He made his mark in the 1980s when he founded medical and veterinary schools in Dominica, despite having no background in either medicine or education. Ross University grew into a profitable institution with more than 2,000 students, and Ross sold it for $135 million in 2000 to a private-equity firm. He has reapplied his winning formula to nursing, and IUON welcomed its first class in 2005. Ross admits...
Rebecca E. Rollins, the associate director of the Harvard News Office, said in the Globe that the summer school does not conduct criminal background checks on its students. She told The Crimson Wednesday that she had no further information to release at the time. Dean of Students Christopher S. Queen was also unavailable for comment...
Murphy was arrested Monday after making an illegal left turn on Mass. and Western Avenues, according to the Cambridge police report. The Globe reported that after a police officer ticketed Murphy and conducted a background check, officers were informed of the warrant and staked out his car on Oxford Street, where he was arrested...