Word: backgrounds
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Praising the "ambition and creativity" demonstrated by student leaders, Cooke says she hopes to use her background in education and business to help student groups develop sustainable leadership structures and financial skills...
Incorporating this style throughout the performance reveals the true depth of creativity and talent in the dancers. The segment "Accordion To You," in which two people fight over a piece of toast while an accordion is played in the background, has a more of a skit-like quality than some of the other segments. The movement here, while just as impressive, is more playful and calls on the performers to be actors as well as dancers. "Limning Twilight," in contrast to "Accordion To You," is slower and more expressive. The choreography is not as much playful as it is polished...
Very few home-schooled students attend Harvard. Illingworth estimates that there are only 30 to 40 in the undergraduate population. Illingworth said all students should apply and stressed that each admitted student had "something great in their background...
...would be talking and hear submachine guns in the background," she says, recalling the plight of the innocent victims of political unrest. "Those are the people that deserve the credit, not us. We [doctors] just bring back the stories in detail to get those in the U.S. involved...
Bitton joined several other fellows in opening the conflict between the Orthodox and secular communities in Israel today. As an IDF official with a strong religious background, she offered a unique perspective on the rift...