Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hindu father met his mother, a Brooklyn Jew, in the unlikely state of Iowa, where they attended graduate school. Hence Nadkarni camed the title of "The Hinjew" form his friends. At home, his family celebrates Chanukah, Christmas, and Divali, the Hindu festival of lights. Because of this diverse ethnic background, Nadkarni feels distant from "the blue blood sense of Harvard," and he says this sense of not belonging may explain "why I've strived to excel and become part of a social circle...
...Harvard Classes, a barn-storming campus basketball club. After a frustrating freshman year playing with Harvard's IV team "in front of only three fans." Nadkarni jumped to the Classics and even assumed coaching responsibilities, handling the delicate task of coaching ex-varsity players with his JV background...
...selection? To say that universities ought to select the "best" possible students is nothing but a platitude. How should merit be defined? As Klitgaard points out, at universities today "merit" is not simply confined to academic merit as measured by grades and test scores. Leadership, motivation, and diversity of background and race are all among the criteria schools consider in selecting their members...
...amicable morning-show encounters took place against a grim background of continuing questions about what really happened on July 9, 1977, in a Chicago suburb. A dazed and injured Cathleen Crowell, then 16, told police she had just been raped and cut with a broken beer bottle by a young man in a car. Dotson was subsequently convicted of the rape and given a 25-to-50-year sentence. In March, Webb first told Illinois authorities that her accusation had been false, and then surfaced on Today, insisting that she had made up the story out of fear that...
...survived, while 24 children who received no treatment died within six months. The criteria used to determine who should get treatment, according to the Legal Center, included the severity of illness as well as the anticipated "contribution" from home and society. The two groups claim that race and economic background were among the factors considered. Carlton is black, and many of the other children who died, according to an attorney for his family, were minorities. Hospital officials deny the allegations, arguing that all the infants were treated strictly according to their medical needs...