Word: backgrounding
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About two years ago, I had such a moment. The object of my affection seemed worlds away. True, we lived in the same city, but attended different schools, divided by background and religion and life experience. Still, in one momentous e-mail, I attempted to bridge those gaps, inviting my dream girl for an inter-cultural experience; a Shabbat dinner at Harvard Hillel...
...good walk-up should just be something in the background,” he wrote me by email, “that allows you to relax at the plate, or get pumped up, or give you confidence...
...think she’s going to do a terrific job,” he said. “She brings an extraordinary background in elective politics, and when she was a fellow at the Institute she was very popular with the students, so she’s demonstrated that she can work effectively with students...
...successor and the economy over which he or she presides will start off at a disadvantage, especially if Greenspan fails to steady the rocky economy in the months ahead. Some Fed watchers are worried that the President might pluck from corporate America a CEO with little formal finance background to run the Fed, as he did with John Snow at Treasury. The most likely candidates, though, are Martin Feldstein, a Harvard professor and former head of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School, who ran the CEA during much of Bush...
...moral drama of war without being overwrought. With the E Street Band on hiatus, Springsteen plays a majority of the instruments himself, and producer Brendan O'Brien highlights the intimacy by granting most songs a verse of acoustic guitar before carefully adding keyboards, fiddle, feathery drums and occasional background vocals. (For those curious about what the songs sound like without production, Devils is in the new DualDisc format: flip it over, and there's a DVD of Springsteen playing alone...