Word: backgrounders
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...cost an arm and a leg. A typical Harvard undergraduate applying to medical school can rack up more than $6,000 in costs for applications, the MCAT, test prep, and travel costs for interviews, according to students and advisers. While some resources are available for undergraduates from low-income backgrounds, including loans from the Harvard Financial Aid Office, many applicants do not qualify for application fee waivers and medical schools do not offer financial aid for students not yet enrolled. These expenses can be constraining—both on students’ checkbooks and on the number of medical schools...
...Queen is acutely aware that the continued success of the monarchy depends on the careful nurturing of popular consent - and that a peculiar danger of being the best-known woman in the world for over half a century is becoming background noise, ubiquitous but forgotten. Her press secretary, Penny Russell-Smith, says that the last 15 years of coverage, focused mostly on the misadventures of the younger royals, has created "a generation of readers and viewers who aren't aware of what the Queen's work is all about." The antidote is more exposure. So not for the Queen...
Patrick, who was the former assistant attorney general for civil rights, also argued that his personal and professional background had prepared him to run for governor...
...what he was thinking into a song a second ago. The lyrics seem much more real than ones describing this kind of experience should. Each track is uniquely Morrissey, using his charms to the fullest without coasting on his charisma. The biggest fault of these tracks is that the background has an annoying 80s-synthy sound. Although this would annoy me on most tracks, it is particularly frustrating in back of powerful, meaningful lyricism like “The Youngest Was the Most Loved,” a look at parents’ inability to hide their kids from...
...doubt that WCRB would play some of the stuff we play,” he says. “We never want our music to be background music...