Word: backgrounders
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...answer isn’t stupidity, so much as hubris. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is flying way too close to the sun. But before I get into that, some background information...
...Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps - were surprising. "Children who grow up in a household with only one biological parent," she found, "are worse off, on average, than children who grow up in a household with both of their biological parents, regardless of the parents' race or educational background...
...movies, Michael Mann has made interesting music choices - when to use it, and at what volume. Your worked together on Heat, which often buried the music in the background. What was it like working with him on this period piece...
...more social grace than the other two (i.e. he didn’t explicitly mention “Morocco” or “Moroccan”). In the middle of our conversation, he (again, bluntly) interjected, “What’s your background? Arab...
...someone were to ask me about my ethnic background in Cambridge, I would equate the question with an invitation to discuss my mixed ancestry—my father is Libyan, and my mother is German...