Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Microsoft should have been involved in selecting Lessig as special master and in investigating his background, Cullinan said...
Chemistry/physics concentrator Iris Lan '98decided not to double up her introductory physicscourses and recommends that students without astrong physics background do the same because"people need time to mature in the subject...
...There will be exceptions," Law said. "I wantto make sure students have a good background [inphysics] case by case...
Monica Samille Lewinsky arrived in Washington in 1995 at the age of 21, fresh out of college, with no background in politics but with a prized Washington asset: connections. Her mother Marcia Lewis, an author and socialite, lives at the Watergate (not far from the Doles, Lewis liked to tell associates); more important, Monica's mother knew Walter Kaye, a retired New York City insurance magnate and generous contributor to the Democratic Party. Kaye recommended Monica for a summer internship at the White House, a job she probably would not otherwise have landed. Monica "was excited about it," says...
...looking into the Virgin's chamber. She is in the foreground, looking girlish and distraught, facing you and throwing up her hands as though she were appealing for help. And why not? The angel, bearing the news that God has just impregnated her (you can see God in the background, as invasive and patriarchal as could be), seems to have fairly burst into the room. A cat, scared witless by the angel's irruption, bounds away, back arched--you can almost hear it hiss. The painting is funny and reverent, gawky and vernacular and dreamlike, all at the same time...