Word: backgrounders
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...Lamont Libary, while a man wheels potted plants across the street. And inside Barker, the humanities building in which Faust is scheduled to meet the press around 4 p.m., technicians are setting up the stage for a news conference in the ornate Thompson Room. Looming over a snazzy red background that says "Harvard University" over and over is the sage, bronze head of John Harvard...
Sadly, though, that does not seem to be the case. Faust’s own background in fact made her a perfect choice to lead the Radcliffe Institute—and yet a patently imperfect one to govern a university...
...research slated to be a primary focus of the proposed Allston campus, both Thomas R. Cech, a 1989 Nobel laureate in chemistry and president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Hyman, who holds a professorship at the Harvard Medical School, were considered strong candidates.While Faust has no scientific background, Barbara J. Grosz, dean of science at Radcliffe, said that the Radcliffe dean has an impressive amount knowledge of the sciences and will be competent to carry out the task at hand.“There’s no question in my mind that she will be able...
...national and personal background may contribute to his fondness for bright lines staunchly defended. Nigeria is a country where boundless enthusiasm and resources coexist with harsh factionalism, not the least between Muslims in its north and Christians in its south. Akinola, born into the Yoruba tribe, itself divided by the two faiths, was shaped in a crucible of the religious strife that has by now taken thousands of lives on both sides. That experience, combined with his naturally combative and entrepreneurial nature, made him a fearless herald of Christ. Starting when he became a bishop in 1989, Akinola developed Nigeria...
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