Word: backgrounds
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...should a minority citizen of middle-or upper-middle class background, of a similar education and acculturation as any caucasian, be given a priori an advantage? To make up for the centuries of discrimination preceding 1863? Or, for that matter, 1963? We no longer live in that world, thank God. Should we pretend we still...
...should be downplayed. We should begin to worry when ambassadors like Foley stress the personal nature of their jobs: "Every person is different, every approach. It depends, to some degree, on the personality of the individual...I am going to do my best under my circumstances with my particular background...
Prospective participants tell Radcliffe about their background and career goals and can select their top three mentors from a list of more than...
McGrath says that although the application form for the Radcliffe Mentor Program allow students to indicate their ethnicity, it is not considered a matching characteristic unless a student specifically requests to be paired with a woman from a similar ethnic background...
...commonality to strike any mental or emotional chord. Even the unrequited love song "It's Gonna Be (Alright)" is passive; cliched lyrics ("So many dark and lonely nights/But I believe someday I'll see the light") contribute to the already blase sounds and harmonic whispers of the static background...