Word: backgrounds
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...like many of my friends who happen to be of a minority background, have been at a table where we were the only minorities present on many occasions. Furthermore, I believe that it is a credit to the minority students at Harvard that they can choose to eat with whomever they wish. Besides, if a group of minority students wishes to sit at a table together, so what? However, it is also true that a table of minorities hardly represents the entire minority population...
Fredy Cristiani, 41, sports an image of moderation but comes from a traditionally rightist background. He is the product of privilege and a 1968 graduate of Washington's Georgetown University who heads family-owned coffee and pharmaceutical businesses. Cristiani became active in ARENA a year before the 1984 presidential election. Its candidate then, party founder Roberto d'Aubuisson, was strongly opposed by the U.S. because of his alleged ties to the notorious death squads. Party leaders, eager to transform ARENA's tough image, chose Cristiani to personify the new nonviolent party...
...practical education as well as play ball can find obstacles in their path. That was the case with Brian Rahilly, who as a 6-ft. 10-in. senior electrified Oklahoma's Muskogee High School with his on-court wizardry in 1983. Brian, who comes from a white, middle-class background, was sought after by dozens of colleges before choosing the University of Tulsa. He says he had two goals: to play in the N.B.A. and to become a sports broadcaster...
...eastern Sierras. On a brilliant winter afternoon, knee-deep snow covers the intake pond behind a small concrete dam, and a Steller's jay swoops among the evergreens. Mount Dana, lacking only an Ansel Adams moon, is lit up crisply against a cloudless sky. And in the background (the sticking point), there is the sound of rushing water...
...years the sound of prison doors clanging shut has provided the background music for the transition from one Teamster president to the next. From Dave Beck in 1958 to Jackie Presser in 1986, four of the past six Teamster chiefs have been accused or convicted of felonies, often involving organized crime...