Word: backgrounders
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...show The O.C. and films like While You Were Sleeping, is standing on a street corner, cell phone wedged against his shoulder, simultaneously trying to maintain an animated conversation and order a hotdog from a street vendor. Commuters push past him on the sidewalk, and in the background, yellow taxis fight their way through traffic...
Walter Isaacson's article on national standards for public schools makes many important points [April 27]. As an English teacher at a high school with many Navy kids, I'd love to know that students coming from other states have a common background for me to start from. But before we set standards, we need to define the purpose of a public education. Right now, public schools are trying to be all things to all people: teaching about everything from harassment to baby care, and doing much of it poorly. We need a mission statement and a definition of basic...
...break with tradition, the majority of Obama’s appointees have an academic background...
...emotions from those college years and beyond.An original rock musical written and composed by Zoe S. N. Sarnak ’09 and directed by Jordan A. Reddout ’10, “The Quad” explores the tumults of the college experience against a background of upbeat rock music and piano music. Although it is made by college students, performed by college students, and presented to a college audience, the play explores a series of universal themes: conformity, infidelity, loss and renewal of respect, inability to express emotions, loneliness, death, and love.The two-act play opens...
Looming in the background of last November’s presidential election was the possibility that the Democrats in the Senate could reach the magic number: By holding 60 seats in the Senate, they could overcome Republican filibusters and push through a liberal agenda without significant interference from their more conservative colleagues. But the Democrats fell just short, and, for Obama’s first 100 days, the president was forced to settle for a considerable but not filibuster-proof majority. Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania changed that, though, when he announced on Tuesday morning that he would defect...