Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee will be composed of a diverse set of faculty members in terms of academic discipline and ethnic background...
Dough Brown's overtime goal in the Boston Garden Wednesday brought the Devils one step closer to ripping up the Bruins' ticket to the Stanley Cup. Waiting in the background as a prospective opponent in the finals for the "Mouseketeers" are the Edmonton Oilers. And Gretzky...
...restriction that compounds the tasks faced by the Harvard program. PBH organizers complain of a continual struggle with the prison administration for time and support--a struggle they say they usually lose. In recent weeks, for instance, the Deer Island administration has required all tutors to pass an exhaustive background check, which slows down the process of bringing teachers to the prison. "I think they just don't want 20 people coming here. [Bureaucratic red tape] is the greatest ammunition they can throw at you," says Deer Island case manager Dan O'Connell, a social worker employed by the prison...
Contact with people like the Harvard tutors is particularly important for many prisoners because they come from a violent background in which "the street" is home and "officers" are the enemy. Coming from the underclass, such individuals often feel they have no real opportunity to attain conventional standards of success or happiness, writes Rhodes scholar Jay MacLeod '83-'84, who was a PBH officer during his undergraduate years. In his book on disadvantaged Boston-area youth, Ain't No Makin' It, MacLeod argues that such hopelessness leaves people disconnected from mainstream society. Inmates agree, saying they feel shunned and forgotten...
...this is exactly the problem. The Reagan Administration has not waged a loud war on civil rights. Instead it has adopted a sort of laissez-faire attitude towards racism, and allowed civil rights to fade into the background of national debate. Meanwhile it has quietly appointed scores of conservative judges to the Federal Courts and to the Supreme Court. Only now, after seven years of relative quiet on the civil rights front, are these appointments taking their toll--giving America a bitter taste of the Reagan legacy...